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At 02:18 PM 3/15/99 -0500, Bill la Forge wrote: >From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@s...> >>Basically, he wanted the ability to check the document structure without >>the internal subset, so he could rely on the validation process to make >>certain that documents conformed to an 'official' DTD, without extra junk >>some twerpy developer put in the internal subset to make his own version >>valid if not official. > >But even given that an 'official' DTD was used, there is a question as to >WHICH official DTD was used. > >[...much good stuff...] > >My belief here is that it is perhaps best to abandon validation by the parser- >kernel and instead use filters which support the validation needs of the >application. Errors so detected may be because of a poorly constructed document, >but may also be due to constraints imposed by a particular application. I like the filters approach very much. Perhaps it might be possible to implement that approach, and control it through options set with ModSAX - among other things, being able to order the parser to use a particular DTD/schema to process a document would get this poor DB admin out of his nightmare. Hmmm.... Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer Sharing Bandwidth / Cookies http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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