• From: "Steve Muench" <smuench@u...>
• To: <martind@n...>
• Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 08:45:44 -0700

| Didier replies:
| So, if I understand well, these parser automatically turn on the validation
| process when a DOCTYPE is encountered in the file. You have to manually turn
| off validation with an command line option. Is that right? I'll enter that
| info in my notebook.

I don't think they are working in validation mode,
but my understanding is that they must fetch the 
DTD in case there are default attribute values 
(at a minimum) lurking in there that might affect
what info the parser makes available to the application.

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Steve Muench, Consulting Product Manager & XML Evangelist
Business Components for Java Development Team



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