Re: XSchema Question 6: Entities

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:12:56 -0400


Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> Question: Should entity support be provided in XSchema?

Yes.

Without support for general entities in XSchemas, an XSchema-based
validator cannot exist unless it also reads the DTD. Required
attributes or content may be hidden inside entities, causing a
validator oblivious to entities to give a false negative result.

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