- From: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@allette.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:30:34 +1100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>, Erwin Staalsmid <Erwin.Staalsmid@OVSoftware.com>, "'xmlschema-dev@w3.org'" <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> I thought you were headed in a different direction -- it is open to a > conformant non-validating XML processor to simply _not include_ the > external general entity referenced by '&street;'. It would be > possibly, although unhelpful, to use such a processor as the first > stage of a schema processor. That's more or less what I expected. Internal general entitites are always resolved while external entities may or may not be resolved. I guess the only way to know will be to test different schema processors and see how they handle this. > As for MSXML4 -- I agree with you, that's the wrong strategy, but the > REC just says what schema validation is, not when you should perform > it. Yes, this is really too bad because as soon as you have a DTD present (internal or external) MSXML4 will completely disregard schema validation. Thanks for the clarification /Eddie
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