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At 08:22 AM 4/8/99 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >>(not to UI designers, provide two >>separate icons for "validate" and "check wf" ) > >Yes! IE5 has a nice validation capability, but no way (that I've >found) for the user to invoke it. Is there one? See http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/xml/xml_validator/defau lt.asp. I don't know that it counts as 'user invocation' the way you meant, though. >Good question; I can see both sides. But in fact, Chris, I think what's >motivating you here is less a concern for forcing validation than a >concern for forcing the use of the external DTD for entity declarations >& attribute defaults and so on. Which is fine; but I think there are >2 separate questions here: > > - should a document be able to ask for validation > - should a document be able to ask for guaranteed reading of all > external entities > >Related but distinct. -Tim And that's precisely why XML Processing Description Language (XPDL) separates them. See http://purl.oclc.org/NET/xpdl for details. It also provides a mechanism for making the readability of these features optional, when appropriate, though the default requires the resources to be read. 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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