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  • From: ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson)
  • To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:44:22 +0000

ht@c... (Henry S. Thompson) writes:

> > You suggest using a validating processor but that would generate errors
> > as the document would be invalid, wouldn't it?
> 
> Nope.  No ELEMENT or ATTLIST == no errors.

Arghh.  Must be Friday.  You're right, I'm wrong.  Most validating
parsers actually recover from no declaration for the root element by
turning off validation, but that's a contingent, not a necessary,
property.

ht
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