Re: SAX: finalising org.sax.xml.Parser

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 12:24:18 -0500


Matthew Gertner writes:

> How about a 2x2 matrix?
>
> With DTD
> setValidate(false) - checks for well-formedness, external subset is used
> for entity and notation declarations, etc.
> setValidate(true) - full validation
>
> Without DTD
> setValidate(false) - just checks for well-formedness
> setValidate(true) - throws an exception

This comes back to the original problem, however: what if I want to
include the external subset and external text entities but don't want
to validate? I'm not sure that the two should be tied together
(AElfred, for example, does not validate, but it does use the DTD).

All the best,

David

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