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David Carlisle wrote: >> In the absence of a DTD, rxp -V reports >> >> Warning: Document has no DTD, validating abandoned > >If there is a DOCTYPE but the DTD doesn't define any elements, is >validation similarly abandoned, or in that case would it generate >errors on every element (as does nsgmls for example). It generates errors for (the first occurrence of) each element. Incidentally, validating parsers must provide a mode in which they do not report violations of validity constraints - see the definition of "validity constraint" and "at user option". This provides a means of ensuring that all entity declarations are read, without needing to declare elements and attributes. -- Richard
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