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>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
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