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I think, I need to give up with my arguments in this thread. The concepts now seem to go into my head. Nobody so far seem to agree with my arguments. It seems, I was wrong. Sorry for wasting anybody's time. On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote: >> The spec seems to suggest that XML documents are valid only if a DTD >> is associated with the XML document. > > That is not a "suggestion". valid is a technical term defined in the XML > specification and that's a necessary condition for validity. > >> I don't mind validating XML documents with other technologies like >> RelaxNG or Schematron, if there is a need for me to do so. But I >> think, existence of technologies like RelaxNG or Schematron cannot be >> an excuse for XML spec, not to mention XSD within it as a validating >> technology. > > Whether or not a document validates against an XSD or schematron schema > has no bearing on whether or not it is a valid as opposed to merely well > formed XML document. You seem to want "valid" to mean validated against > any schema language of your choice, that's OK (but confusing) if used in > conversation, but it is not the way the term "valid" is defined in XML. > > > XSD, RelaxNG, Schematron all depend on XML; not the other way round. They > require normative references to XML, it would be entirely backwards (or > worse, circular) for XML to reference them. > > David -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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