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Norman Walsh wrote: > XML Schemas provide no mechanism for declaring general entities. (This > isn't an oversight on the part of the XML Schema WG, it's a consequence > of how schema validation is defined. Briefly, schema validation is performed > on the information set constructed by parsing the document. But the parser > needs to know about entity declarations *while it's parsing* so schema's > just occur "too late" in the process to practically declare entities.) This implies that if I need to use general entities, I have to preprocess my document against a DTD - is that correct? I was unaware that schema processing took place at a different point than DTD processing - does this impact on anything else? Sorry if this has been covered - I was reclining, secure in the misconception that aside from the obvious benefits of schemas, the two were roughly equivalent. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
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