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Chris Lilley wrote: > > So, it always validates, but the flag controls whether error messages > are shown? That sounds fine, until you realise that if a validating > parser founfd an error then not only do you have error messages, you > also have no parse tree. So, what gets displayed? Presumably, some > fixed-up, error-corrected tree. I'm not sure what you mean here. Consider: <!ELEMENT FOO (BAR, BAZ)> ... <FOO><BAZ/><BAR/></FOO> The tree does not conform to the DTD but it is not ambiguous. In the face of errors IE5 should give you exactly the same parse tree that a well-formed only parser gives you. > c) If people want validation, they will make valid documents. If they > don't, they will make well formed documents. I would usually agree with you but in this case there is a bug in the XML spec. that causes a problem. If you have a DTD only in order to specify a single defauled attribute or entity then that document becomes well-formed by *not valid*. There is no concept of "has a DTD but is not meant to be valid" or "conforms to the declarations that are available but the declaration are not complete." If you look at the "Element Valid" validity constraint you will see that an element is only valid if its element type is declared and all of its child elements are also of types that have been declared. I propose a processing instruction that says that a document has a DTD but is not meant to be valid. <?xml:not-valid?> Then validating applications would treat it as if it were just well-formed. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Other Operating Environments Will Have Trouble Keeping up with Linux's Growth" - http://www.idc.com/Data/Software/content/SW033199PR.htm International Data Corporation bulletin XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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