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• Subject: Re: Re: determining ID-ness in XML
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:21:20 -0800
• In-reply-to: <p04330100b811618c7fb9@[192.168.254.4]>
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> >It would be good for non-DTD-reading systems to know about IDs in those
> >documents.
> >
> Yes, but this can be done by fixing those systems so they read the
> DTD.  The number of non-validating parsers is quite small these days
> relative to validating parsers.

I've had a terrible time getting even validating/DTD-aware
parsers to actually *locate* DTDs.  It's such a hassle
that I've stopped putting <!DOCTYPE ...> declarations in
instances altogether, keeping external DTDs for documentation
purposes only.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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  • RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
  • RE: Re: determining ID-ness in XML
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
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    • From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
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    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
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    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
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