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>> I don't see anything in the spec that says "don't read and validate >> external parsed entities if they're not used." And in fact, the spec >> seems to say that, in order to be valid, they must (whether used or not) >> match certain productions in the grammar. > >Surely the question a validating parser is supposed to answer is not >whether the external parsed entities are valid, but whether the >*document* is valid. > I agree with the latter myself. Once again, sorry for the late contributions, I just got back from my so called vacation (in which the weather totally [expletive deleted] until I came back :-) I could see the utility in having a specific flag on your implementation to force such 'heavy' validation, but I would argue against being forced to scan it if its not even referenced in all cases. It would be a nice tool for DTD developers to use before putting out the DTD. But I probably wouldn't want my file, which only used 10% of some heavy duty DTD/Schema, to have to pay the cost to fully validate the DTD/Schema every time I used it, just to make sure for the one millionth time today that it was fully correct. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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