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On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Simon Wilson wrote: > Imagine if all those XML-based B2B systems out there referenced external > entities on external web-sites. Hack the site, change or remove the DTD/schema > and a lot of companies are losing a lot of money. > > As a result, I think you'll find that most people with their wits about them > will be taking a copy of standardized DTDs and referencing that instead in order > to prevent such things from happening. This is actually deeper. What happens if 3 organizations agree on a given DTD. They all refer to that DTD, having it hosted by one of the companies. And then the hosting company makes a slight 'clarifying' change... which happens to cause validation of particular documents which were considered invalid by one organization to succeed. I think it is rather "essential" to be able to 'ovverride' the DTD used as a command line option; pointing it to a local version of the DTD. Clark *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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