Re: SV: What's a valid instance...James Clark

Bryan Rasmussen wrote:
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>>> Trouble is, James Clark is one of those people who I would imagine is 
>>> rarely wrong, so I thought I'd better ask!
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>> Yes, James Clark is wrong.   Of course you need to take a look at the 
>> date of the email, which is 2002, and we are in 2007 now, so I suspect 
>> it was accurate at the time it was written.   Xerces correctly rejects 
>> the <bar/> element when validated with the schema example provided.
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> Really? It's been probably a full year but I could have sworn the last time I
> checked this thing in XSV and in some versions of XMLSpy it validated laxly?
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I believe Xerces default is strict.  It is the only way I validate any 
way.  In my industry, lax validation does us no good.

Dave