RE: ENTITY datatype

> -----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

Received on Thursday, 14 February 2002 11:45:41 UTC