Re: Including a 1.1 entity in a 1.0 document

/ John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh scripsit:
|> / John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> was heard to say:
|> | In that case, the Third Edition of XML 1.0 would control, which specifies
|> | that the text declaration of the external entity MUST specify version 1.0.
|> | So it's a well-formedness error.
|> 
|> Where do we say that an incorrect version is a WF error?
|
| The version number is specified by production 26 as exactly "1.0".
| Section 2.1 requires that a well-formed document must match
| production 1 ("document").  So no WFC is needed.

Ok. I see that. I think it might be worth adding something slightly
less subtle in some future rev, but I don't think it's urgent.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Received on Monday, 17 July 2006 18:23:31 UTC