Re: http references in an OT font's SVG docs (xmlns, dtd)

Hello Hin-Tak,

Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 8:48:13 PM, you wrote:

> I did a bit of googling, apparently mono's XML parser's behavior
> towards named DTD in the DOCTYPE header mimic Microsoft .Net's .
> MSDN documentation on dotnet's XML parser does tell you how to
> switch it off, but network resolution is on by default :-(.

Which is fine if it is a validating parser.

> So this might be worth mentioning in some "MS .net/mono C#
> implementer' guide" on w3c - I am a bit horrified by this also.

We do have a blog post from 2008 about this
https://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic/

> There are some catalog caching and resolution-redirection API's,
> which I'll look into at some point.

> Also - apparently there is no official XML schema for SVG - is that
> correct?

Correct. At one point we were seriously looking into doing a relaxNG
schema for SVG, but the effort needed was considerable and interest in
schemas seems to have declined in favour of much more complex
validators. So we discontinued the effort.




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Best regards,
 Chris  Lilley
 Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain

Received on Wednesday, 27 January 2016 19:27:58 UTC