RE: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?

Daniel,

My NG-HTML articles pre-date the Voyager/XHTML effort. Alan Richmond, the
original mastermind behind Web Developer's Virtual Library (WDVL) and its
long-time author, plans to do an in-depth article on XHTML in mid May.
Interested parties should watch the WDVL home page, http://www.WDVL.com/.

The XML section of WDVL lists XHTML in the Specifications page and in the
News page (which will be updated shortly).
http://wdvl.Internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/Specifications.html
http://wdvl.Internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/News.html

I'll pass your good wishes on to Alan and Lucy. Good luck at CNET; I visit
frequently.
-Ken Sall, WDVL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Austin [mailto:daniela@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 2:49 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?
> 
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> 	It's a bug, they know about it. Also, I was interested 
> to see that
> your article(s) on "HTML-NG" and on the WDVL
> don't make much mention of XHTML. The current draft of XHTML 1.0 is
> currently in last call to go to PR, and is essentially final, 
> barring a few
> errata. Also the first public version of the XHTML 
> modularization draft will
> be available from W3C tomorrow. Hopefully you can find some 
> space to mention
> us in your articles.
> 
> 	As a long-time supporter and former author for the 
> WDVL, I am glad
> to see that someone is covering XML. Please say hello to Alan 
> and his wife
> for me. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> D-
> 
> (speaking for myself, rather than any working groups or corporations)
> 
> ********************************************************************
> Daniel Austin, Director of Development, Creative Services, CNET
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> "To change the old into the new, and the shapes of things to come..." 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sall, Ken [mailto:ksall@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:38 PM
> > To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: Why Doesn't IE5 use the DTD to Validate?
> > 
> > 
> > It doesn't appear that IE5 (March 18th release) uses the DTD 
> > to validate
> > XML, as did the IE5 Beta 2 release. Has anyone been able to 
> > make IE5 detect
> > when a doc doesn't follow the rules of the DTD that it 
> > references? I've
> > tried local and public cases. See:
> > 
> http://members.home.com/kensall/tests/
> http://members.home.com/kensall/tests/collection1pubbugs.xml
> http://members.home.com/kensall/tests/collection1.dtd
> 
> There are three errors that _should_ be detected in 
> collection1pubbugs.xml
> with respect to the collection1.dtd: 
> 
>    1.The Value element is not defined in the DTD. 
>    2.The attribute "Publisher" within the Published element should be
> "publisher", as per the DTD. 
>    3.Although Notes is a valid element for a Book, it is not 
> valid for a CD,
> according to the DTD. 
> 
> Am I missing something? Is there some buried option that I 
> have to enable to
> get IE5 to consult my DTD? I've confirmed that it is 
> _looking_ for the right
> DTD; when I change the DOCTYPE line so that the reference is 
> a non-existent
> file, IE5 does complain.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to complete 
> this example
> for my next article for WDVL (below).
> 
> - Ken Sall                           ksall@xxxxxxx, kensall@xxxxxxxx,
> ken@xxxxxxxx
> - Century Computing Division         http://www.cen.com/
> - AppNet, Inc.                       http://www.appnet.net/
> - XML at Web Developers Virtual Lib
> http://WDVL.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/
> - NG-HTML: Next Generation HTML      http://www.cen.com/ng-html/
> - MW3: Motif on the World Wide Web   http://www.cen.com/mw3/
> 
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