[Bug 3817] Processor profiles for following/not following schemaLocation

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3817





------- Comment #5 from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com  2007-03-21 14:03 -------
I'm feeling dense.  I've looked at comment #1 and Appendix D.2.1 of the
editor's draft, both before posting comment #3 and again.  I am seeing how to
say "Try to dereference hints" (schemaLocation hints in D.2.1);  I am seeing
how to say "There  exist non-schemaLocation sources of some schema documents to
be used (hard-coded schema locations, named pairs, schema documents, etc ); I
am seeing that some "schemas" (I presume for things like HTML) can be built
into a validator (hard-coded schemas).  What I'm still missing is:  if you see
a schemaLocation in an instance, perhaps for some namespace not addressed by
the other mechanisms, or perhaps for a namespace for which some declarations
already were brought in by those other mechanisms, you MUST NOT dereference the
schemaLocation URI and in any case MUST NOT use it as inspiration to change the
schema you would have otherwise constructed.  What am I missing?

Received on Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:04:07 UTC