Re: Wording of ASOM

> ... XML did not officially define a processor type/mode in which no
> attempt is made to use the external subset. 

Eh?  I sure think it did.  The external subset is an unnamed entity,
so it falls under the options for a non-validating parser.  That was
the clear intent.


> And if you really want to process without _any_ reference to the Document
> Type, including its internal subset...  we can do that too but that's yet
> another mode, 

... actually that'd be clearly outside the scope of the XML REC, so
don't call it "XML".

- Dave

Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2002 10:31:40 UTC