- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 01:46:07 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 01:47 PM 10/14/96 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >At 03:05 PM 10/12/96 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > >>B.2 Should XML require each document instance to have a DTD or not >>(7.1)? > >One concept is that the XML spec should define two separate characteristics >that a document can have, well-formedness and validity. I agree with something along the lines of Tim's proposal. SGML requires a DTD, yet it hasn't stopped anyone from processing documents without a DTD. SGML addressed this by differentiating validating and non- validating parsers. I think we should use a similar approach. bob Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760
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