Re: SDD again

Paul Prescod (papresco@technologist.com)
Fri, 08 May 1998 15:44:32 -0400

David Megginson wrote:
>
> Your first premise is correct, but your second one is not. The spec
> states that a validating parser must use the whole DTD; it does not
> state that a non-validating parser may not use the DTD. AElfred, for
> example, reads the DTD well enough that it can even flag ignorable
> whitespace base on an element type's content model, but it is
> non-validating.

You are right. I guess when I think of parsers, I prefer to think of them
as interchangable within a class, so I would be leery about trusting
features that only overachievers like you implement. :)

> That said, I still agree that the standalone declaration is wrong.
> Perhaps some day, if there's an XML 1.1, we can think about fixing it.

Probably better to deprecate it. And as soon as possible!

Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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