- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:58:49 -0400
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "William F. Hammond" <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Cc: <mozilla-mathml@mozilla.org>, <www-talk@w3.org>
At 09:59 PM 5/1/01 -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote: >Mozilla's XML parser should be smart enough to recognize the HTML DTDs and >thus expand these entities properly, even if it doesn't validate the page >(which I believe it should). I thought Mozilla carried a local list of entities that it applied to HTML based on the PUBLIC identifier from the DOCTYPE declaration. I could be totally wrong, but that's what I understood last summer while working on the Mozilla/XML articles for XML.com. On the validation side, I think a lot of people are happy to acknowledge that validation is grossly overrated, especially when presented as a task that should be performed repeatedly at every step in a delivery process. Given Mozilla's use of the non-validating (and totally legitimate) expat parser as a foundation, demanding validation sounds like a non-starter. Next they'll want everyone to validate against W3C XML Schema. Bah. Simon St.Laurent - Associate Editor, O'Reilly & Associates XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. XHTML: Migrating Toward XML http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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