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John Cowan wrote: > > Peter Murray-Rust scripsit: > > > - tool threw a fatal error because <!DOCTYPE was missing > > The XML Rec does not forbid a parser to treat validation errors as fatal. But -- a missing DTD isn't a validation error. No validity constraint says "there must be a DTD". The validation errors start coming in when the content uses names that aren't declared ... first one will be the root element. It's not that subtle a point; the syntax is optional, but if you don't use it you will certainly run into validity errors. - Dave 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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