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XMLBuddy, Oxygen and no doubt other editors support using DTDs for
entities but not for validation, as the XML spec allows a non-validating
parser to do. XMLBuddy uses an off-the-shelf parser (XercesJ). The only
issue is finding the right feature incantation that makes it work.
I believe the industry as a whole is gradually reacting to this common
use case. In another forum, Michael Glavassevich wrote: "The JAXP 1.3
Validation API [1][2] decouples the process of validation from parsing.
You will be able to perform schema validation without also having to
turn on the [DTD] validation feature."
It's certainly the path of least resistance to Just Do It as opposed to
inventing a replacement for DTD entities. If your favorite parser
doesn't support this use case, send them a bug report.
Bob Foster
http://xmlbuddy.com/
Michael Champion wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca <Nadia.Swaby@pwc.ca> wrote:
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>>In summation, schema can be very useful in publishing, but the lack of
>>entity support is a huge drawback.
>
>
> Strictly speaking, one can use DTDs (to declare entities) in
> conjunction with XSD to define everything else. After all, DTD
> operates on XML syntax and XSD is defined on the Infoset. I suspect
> that there are gotchas that make this difficult ... does anyone know
> what they might be?
>
>
>>I guess I should copy and paste this in word and send it to the W3C!
>
>
> Yes!
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