Re: Schemas and entities (was "And the DTD says, "I'm NOT dead yet!!")

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) writes:

> > You suggest using a validating processor but that would generate errors
> > as the document would be invalid, wouldn't it?
> 
> Nope.  No ELEMENT or ATTLIST == no errors.

Arghh.  Must be Friday.  You're right, I'm wrong.  Most validating
parsers actually recover from no declaration for the root element by
turning off validation, but that's a contingent, not a necessary,
property.

ht
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