RE: Why does xml.xsd have a DOCTYPE declaration?

Thanks Henry.

Interestingly, when I view XMLSchema.dtd using Internet Explorer, I see this:

<!DOCTYPE schema SYSTEM "XMLSchema.dtd" PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN">

Whereas when I "view source" I see this:

<!DOCTYPE xs:schema PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSCHEMA 200102//EN" "XMLSchema.dtd" >

When I call Xerces from a Java program to validate xml.xsd I get this error message:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId:file ...

In fact, Xerces complains with any schema file containing the above DOCTYPE. Anyone have an idea on what's causing this?

/Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry S. Thompson [mailto:ht@inf.ed.ac.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 12:32 PM
To: Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Subject: Re: Why does xml.xsd have a DOCTYPE declaration?

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.

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