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Ronald Bourret wrote: > ... > > 2) When we wrote the new DTD, a *human* made the decision about where > <Height> was legal. Anybody figuring out a foolproof way for a machine to > do this usefully -- that is, without defining the content model of all > elements as ANY -- will probably get a Turing Award for AI. > hmm, I've not been following this discussion, but, if one were to first treat the model as ANY - in order to be able to represent the domain, and then to examine the asserted elements, couldn't this be modeled as a straight-forward learning problem? > ... > I personally think that anything more utopian than this is going to > require, at the very least, a new definition of validity. One such > definition was that proposed in this thread: that each subdocument is > validated under its own DTD and the overall document is not validated but > merely checked for well-formedness. Which would require nothing more complicated in the encoding than an attribute to enable/disable validation on an element basis: validation="none" validation="content attributes", "content", "attributes" validation="element" 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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