- From: Sean McGrath <sean@digitome.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:42:06 +0000
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
At 12:59 PM 11/1/00 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > In other words, read in the XML as a well-formed >document, then apply validation to the bits you care about. The only >thing you'd have to be a little careful of was namespaces. Validating the bits you care about and ignoring the (well formed) bits you don't is a very powerful idea. DTDs specifically disallowed this sort of thing as validating parsers have to barf on occurences of elements with undeclared element types. Having said that, I remember using a version of msxml that had this behavior... Also, I seem to remember that Open Financial Exchange of pre-history had the same idea. I think it is a great way of retaining the interoperability benefits that validation provides but remaining robust in the face of change. Not to mention encouraging diversity and innovation and other fundamentally good things. Sean
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