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Re: ANN: SAX Filters for Namespace Processing




From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>


> >Declare every element as 'ANY' and every attribute as CDATA.
> >You're joking, right ? 
> >
> >I mean ... such a DTD is useless, right?
> 
> Not useless.  It lists the legal attributes and elements, allowing
> a validator to detect some of the most common errors.

Interesting view. Makes sense... 
Too bad nobody is trying to re-think the DTDs
in the way SML-DEV tried to re-think the XML.

Rgds.Paul.