Re: XML Validity and DTD dependance

/ Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com> was heard to say:
| I am not suggesting that namespaces be changed.
|
| I am suggesting that XML validity is useful even if no DTD is present,
| and that it's a bug that validity is defined in terms of DTD.

I remain perplexed. I'm sorry if I'm being totally clueless here, but
I still do not understand how you think validity should be defined in
the absence of a DTD.

  <doc>
    <p xml:id="foo">Some text. <link idref="foo"/>.</p>
  </doc>

Is that document valid? What constraints did you test to make that
determination?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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