- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:51:18 -0800
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>, Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote: > 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." That sounds like validating is optional for the user, not optional for the XML processor, i.e. a UA that did not have some user option to validate while parsing would not be a conforming validating processor. Regards, Maciej
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