- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:12:31 +0200
- To: www-svg@w3.org, Thomas DeWeese <Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com>
- CC: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
On Friday, June 27, 2003, 2:05:43 PM, Thomas wrote: TD> (In fact all the 'real' XML parsers I am aware of _do_ read the TD> DTD, even when not doing validation, but I don't know the XML TD> specs well enough to know if this is required or not). It is explicitly not required by the XML spec. XPat by James Clark is an example of a well known and widely used XML parser which does not attempt to fetch the external DTD subset (all parsers must read and process the internal DTD subset if present). XPat is used in Mozilla and in Opera, for example. The MSXML parser in MSIE/Win does fetch and read the external DTD subset, even when not validation (however, since the parser is not exposed as a service, plugins typically have to provide their own parser). -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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