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Re: The subsetting has begun

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 21 Feb 2003 14:30:40 +0000
• Cc: Mike Champion <mc@x...>, xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> writes:

> I suspect part of the problem is that the members of the expert group
> did not have a clear understanding of the difference between
> validation and reading the DTD, between the DTD and the document type
> declaration, and between the internal and external DTD subsets.
> 
> These are common areas of confusion for a lot of developers. However,
> if you're going to write specs, you need to understand such matters
> better than the average developer.

It would be interesting to hear what people like Norman Walsh think
about it.

Ari.

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