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At 10:53 AM -0700 8/5/98, John Cowan wrote: >David Brownell wrote: > >> And maybe more. For example, it's very useful to see the >> first validation error be "no DTD provided"!! :-) > >My point is that there is no such Validation Constraint. >A WF document that doesn't have a DTD will always provoke >at least one "VC:Element Valid" error, since a WF document >has to have at least one element. But having a DTD >is not *as such* a VC. > >It's true that there's nothing in the spec preventing >parsers from reporting errors where there are no errors: >presumably that is a QOI issue. > A lot of compilers and linkers have warnings in addition to errors. A validating parser could just use that model, allowing it to follow the spec and still be helpful to the users. Avi ________________________________________________________________ Avi Rappoport, Web Site Search Tools Maven <mailto:avirr@l...> Search Tools Consulting Site: <http://www.searchtools.com> 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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