- From: Biron,Paul V <Paul.V.Biron@kp.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:33:39 -0800
- To: "'ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk'" <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Stanley Guan <Stanley.Guan@oracle.com>
- Cc: Schema XML <xmlschema-dev@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk [SMTP:ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:45 AM > To: Stanley Guan > Cc: Schema XML > Subject: Re: ENTITY datatype > > > 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. > The WG is currently discussing whether we should remove the requirement that an ENTITY be declared in a DTD from the notion of type validity for xs:ENTITY...if we adopt this change, it would be an errata to 1.0. Watch the errata page [1] for updates. pvb References [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-errata
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