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Didier PH Martin writes:
> David said:
> Wrong. Non-validating processors can also include the external DTD
> subset (it's optional for them, not forbidden).
>
> Didier replies:
> Is this because a DTD can contain external entities declarations and because
> of this fact, the parser has to read the DTD to resolve these external
> entities?
More likely, because it's (a) looking for default attribute values, or
(b) trying to distinguish whitespace in element content. AElfred does
both of these, even though it's non-validating. I agree with Peter
that this is all a bit of a muddle.
The safest approach seems to be to distribute XML documents normalized
(all external general entities expanded and all default attribute
values filled in) and without a DOCTYPE declaration. Mind you, that
prevents them from being XHTML-conformant...
All the best,
David
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