- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 17:32:00 +0100
- To: "Costello\, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
- Cc: "xmlschema-dev\@w3.org" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Costello, Roger L. writes:
> xml.xsd is at this URL:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2001/03/xml.xsd
>
> Notice that it has a DOCTYPE declaration:
>
> <!DOCTYPE schema SYSTEM "XMLSchema.dtd" PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN">
I see
<!DOCTYPE xs:schema PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN" "XMLSchema.dtd" >
> Why?
Why not? The document is in fact valid per that DTD, and there are
tools, including the one I use all the time, which can exploit the
DOCTYPE in useful ways.
> Are there any plans to remove it?
Not that I know of -- see previous question.
ht
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