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Marcus Carr wrote: <InBigFatLetters>I'm not > suggesting that > XML documents should be validated client side</InBigFatLetters>, > I'm questioning > the wisdom of looking at the DTD at all if you're not putting it > to any use. > Surely the overhead of looking at the DTD outweighs the benefit > (none) obtained > in rendering the above example? > I also agree that browser validation is probably only helful to DTD writers as opposed to end-users and have no problem with leaving it off by default. The reason to parse the DTD is that enternal entities and default attributes are something which are very well needed client side... if entities were left unexpanded by default this would change the 'meaning' of the document itself, something which end users might be interested in :-)) Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net 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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