- From: Arjun Ray <aray@q2.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 22:15:24 -0500 (EST)
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sean McGrath wrote: > 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. > Validating the bits you care about and ignoring the (well formed) > bits you don't is a very powerful idea. Indeed. Architectures! The WebSGML TC makes this easier too:) I have a somewhat clunky demo of this, using an example drawn from Ron Bourret's XML Namespaces FAQ: http://www.nyct.net/~aray/sgml/demo/dept/ (I was using an old rev of SP, so I had to fake a couple of things with an 'any.dtd' to get a well-formed document past the validator, but the demonstration of composition *does* work.) > DTDs specifically disallowed this sort of thing as validating > parsers have to barf on occurences of elements with undeclared > element types. Check out IMPLYDEF in the WebSGML TC http://www.ornl.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0029.htm Arjun
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