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Paul Prescod writes: > Let me risk another step into the language courtroom. Validating > parsers must always read the whole DTD. So the SDD is only for > non-validating parsers. Non-validating parsers do not read element > type declarations. So what is the point of this line: Your first premise is correct, but your second one is not. The spec states that a validating parser must use the whole DTD; it does not state that a non-validating parser may not use the DTD. AElfred, for example, reads the DTD well enough that it can even flag ignorable whitespace base on an element type's content model, but it is non-validating. That said, I still agree that the standalone declaration is wrong. Perhaps some day, if there's an XML 1.1, we can think about fixing it. All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ 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/ 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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