Empty DTD comment issue [was: Minutes for XML Core WG telcon of 2014 February 5]

On 2014-02-05 10:57, Paul Grosso wrote:
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>> 2. Miscellaneous administrivia and document reviews.
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>> Comment about documents with an "empty DTD":
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2014Jan/thread#msg8
>> and
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2014JanMar/
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>> Henry suggests we could probably make the XML spec clearer here;
>> see also his comments at
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2014JanMar/0004
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>> Paul drafted a response and there was some discussion at
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2014Jan/thread#msg19
>> and also at
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2014Jan/thread#msg20
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>> Paul just sent out a slightly modified DRAFT #2 at
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2014Feb/0001
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>> ACTION especially to Jirka, Henry, John:  Review Paul's latest draft at
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2014Feb/0001
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> Looked okay to Norm.
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> Henry was okay with the draft as an answer to the current
> issue, though he may want to use different wording for any
> actual changes we decide to make to the spec.
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> Henry points out that certain tools do use the existence or
> not of a DTD to validate or not.  He points out that some
> questions such as when validation should be done on a document
> remain unanswered.
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> ACTION to Paul:  Send out Draft #2--with possibly some extra
> wording about unanswered questions--as the response to the issue.
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Sent; at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-editor/2014JanMar/0005

paul