Re: How to handle a DTD entity reference in XML-Schema

> 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

Received on Tuesday, 20 November 2001 17:24:10 UTC