- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Feb 2002 10:45:17 +0000
- To: Stanley Guan <Stanley.Guan@oracle.com>
- Cc: Schema XML <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
Stanley Guan <Stanley.Guan@oracle.com> writes:
Sorry to leave this so long.
> In the spec., it says:
> The value space of ENTITY is the set of all strings that match the
> NCName
> production in [Namespaces in XML] and have been declared as an
> unparsed
> entity in a document type definition.
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Does this mean XML Schema cannot live without DTD for some cases?
Yes -- if you use ENTITY, you must have a doctype.
> What're the other occasions that DTD may need to coexist with
> Schema?
I don't think so.
> 2. Where can the DTD that contains the declared unparsed entities
> reside? In the Schema itself (note that Schema is an XML
> document itself)?
No.
> In instance document?
Yes.
ht
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