Re: XHTML character entity support

Shelley Powers wrote:
> 2009/11/3 Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>:
>> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>>> A) A validating processor (in which case they must read all external
>>> DTDs, process the declared entities, and expand the entities when
>>> appropriate, and which must also report violations of DTD constraints.
>> Since 2nd edition of XML from 2000 validating processor is not required
>> to report validation errors:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#proc-types
>>
>> "Validating processors must, ***at user option***, report violations of
>> the constraints expressed by the declarations in the DTD, and failures
>> to fulfill the validity constraints given in this specification."
>>
>>                                Jirka
>>
>> --
> 
> The browsers are not validating parsers. That passage does not relate
> to non-validating parsers.

I was just saying that XML has provisions for parser which doesn't do
validation but read all external entities (to constract Maciej's
statement). Practically, such parser is doing only well-formdness
checking and it is not validating, but in terms of XML spec it is called
"validating processor, which optionally doesn't report violations of the
constraints expressed by the declarations in the DTD..."

Almost all non-validating XML parsers (except those in web browsers)
operate this way.

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