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At 10:08 AM 12/12/97 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Realm #1: Functionality > >a) Scanning > This type of parser simply skips the DOCTYPE declaration (using > regular expressions) and parses the markup in the document > instances. This is not a conformant XML processor per the spec. There are certain things a processor is required to do with the internal subset, including parse it and check it for syntax. >b) DTD-driven There are a whole range of behaviors. Parsers may, not must, read external markup declarations and external parsed entities. >Realm #2: Validation > >a) Non-validating > This type of parser assumes that its input document is both > well-formed and valid, and is not required to report any errors at > all. No such animal is envisioned in the standard. If it doesn't check for WF problems, it's not an XML processor. I'll stop here. I suggest you go back and re-work your (potentially helpful) list based on a re-reading of the specification. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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