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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:21:50PM -0700, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Liam Quin<liam@w3.org> wrote: [...] > We don't have to speak in infoset language here. The critical points are: > > 1. All conformant parsers MUST process the internal DTD subset. Agreed. > 2. The DTD, including the internal DTD subset, can define new entity > references. Agreed. > If they're defined in the internal DTD subset, the parser > must expand these. It must at least make the expansion available. > 3. Nothing except a DTD can define entity references. Right. (although the ISO Schema people seem to have other ideas, see the DSRL draft for an example) > There are other details (default attribute values, malformed internal > DTD subsets, external entity references) but those are what really > make it impossible to just ignore DTDs or claim they're just one kind > of schema language. I'd say they are a kind of schema laguage that's given special status by the XML specification. Ignoring the internal subset isn't an option, for sure. Best, Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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