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

HI Jeff,

<YourComment>
The problem is that the browser is really a processing application, for
example, using XSL to transform or render the document (at least in
principle).  If the document is supposed to conform to a DTD, the XSL code
will be a lot simpler if it can assume it will find what it wants where it
expects it.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
your don't need a DTD for this. A XSL processor can do its work on a
document without DTD
</Reply>

<YourComment>
 If it has to handle any well-formed doc, the error recovery
code will be fearsome.
Can you explain a bit more what you mean here?
 In the example below, the XSL for processing the BAZ
element below may depend upon attribute values or text of the supposedly
preceding BAR element.  If the BAR element might not be present or might
follow the BAZ element, the XSL would need to be messier.
</YourComment>

<Reply>
Good point. But the style sheet may not be a XSL style but a CSS one which
do not require structural integrity. So, if I follow you, any document
associated to a XSL style sheet should have a full DTD to do error handling?
I think this is not necessary, when the XSL processor witll execute, the
query on a particular element will fail and then the XSL processor can give
back an error message.
</reply>

regards
Didier PH Martin
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