OASIS Mailing List ArchivesView the OASIS mailing list archive below
or browse/search using MarkMail.

 


Help: OASIS Mailing Lists Help | MarkMail Help

 


 

   Re: [xml-dev] Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

[ Lists Home | Date Index | Thread Index ]

>Of course there's probably some niggling technical issue
>that would make that unworkable; the document would be
>"invalid" unless the external subset also contained
>a suitable collection of <!ELEMENT...> and <!ATTLIST...>
>declarations, which will cause validating parsers to
>reject it.

The XML spec requires that validating parsers have a mode in which
they don't report validity errors.  See the definitions of "validity
constraint" and "at user option".

>Non-validating parsers of course won't read the external subset.

Non-validating parsers *need not* read the external subset, but they
can if they want to.  Validating parsers of course must do so.

-- Richard




 

News | XML in Industry | Calendar | XML Registry
Marketplace | Resources | MyXML.org | Sponsors | Privacy Statement

Copyright 2001 XML.org. This site is hosted by OASIS