Re: Turning off validation (was Re: Schemas and entities)

[Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>]

David Carlisle wrote:

>> In the absence of a DTD, rxp -V reports
>> 
>>   Warning: Document has no DTD, validating abandoned
>
>If there is a DOCTYPE but the DTD doesn't define any elements, is
>validation similarly abandoned, or in that case would it generate
>errors on every element (as does nsgmls for example).

It generates errors for (the first occurrence of) each element.

Incidentally, validating parsers must provide a mode in which they
do not report violations of validity constraints - see the definition
of "validity constraint" and "at user option".  This provides a means
of ensuring that all entity declarations are read, without needing to
declare elements and attributes.

-- Richard