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Re: XML spec and XSD

• From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
• To: Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:31:22 -0500

> The spec seems to suggest that XML documents are valid only if a DTD
> is associated with the XML document.

Right.  In the XML spec, valid has a very string meaning and it refers 
only to DTD's.

> But I think, that's not entirely true given that XSD is also another
> XML validation language from W3C XML activity.

No, it is true.  You might notice some people using the term schema-valid 
to describe a document that meets XSD schema validation.  This is why they 
(we:) do that.

        /r$

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