RE: Normative DTD [was: Re: Possible schema validation issue in 3.0b3]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Beech [SMTP:dbeech@us.oracle.com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 12, 2000 4:38 PM
> To:	www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
> Subject:	Normative DTD [was: Re: Possible schema validation issue in
> 3.0b3]
> 
> I'm changing the subject title to focus on just the "normative DTD"
> aspect, and replying only to xml-schema-comments on this topic.
> 
> Dan Connolly wrote:
> > 
> > "Falk, Alexander" wrote:
> > >
> > > This message is a question concerning the use of entities to emulate
> > > namespace prefixes in a DTD - a technique that is being used by the
> > > normative DTD from the April 7 XML Schema draft.
> > 
> > Hmm... I thought the DTD was informative...
> > making it normative seems to conflict with the use
> > of anyAttributes...
> 
I would prefer if the DTD was merely informative, but it has been marked as
normative since the first public WD.

pvb