XML accessibility

While I'm on this topic, I have another concern wrt XML access that I
want to write down shortly.

Supposedly, XML user-agents might not need access to the document DTD
to process it: it's ok if the document is well formed and that a style
sheet is available (using an inclusion clause of some kind).

My issue is related to the use of client-side style sheet, which I
think is crucial for accessibility.

How does a user-agent bind an arbitrary XML document to an independant
style sheet without knowledge of the DTD ? 

We must make sure that at least the DTD name (as a unique ID of some
kind) appear in every XML documents, so that client-side binding to a
local "more accessible" style is always possible.

It's unclear to me reading the XML spec that this is the case in the
definition of what "well formed" or "valid" means.

Received on Thursday, 27 November 1997 05:10:08 UTC