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From: "Michael Leditschke" <mike@a...> > Rick uses the term "well-formed" as one of his suggested kinds of > documents, a kind he then suggests should be deprecated. I took > this to mean well-formed per XML 1.0, which includes > the constraints on tag structure. Yes, but the headless XML also has those constraints, so they need not be at issue. The issue is that a document does not forceably constrain which class of parser is required to get its infoset: I think standalone has failed because it requires a too unrealistic smigeon of work at both ends to make it reliable.* Given that we have other schema languages floating around now, if a DOCTYPE is specificied, the expectation of a parser should be that it means the document is not standalone: that the DOCTYPE exists because it provides entities and defaults an ID information rather than for QA. Cheers Rick Jelliffe * Anyway, in SAX 2, we can get the http://xml.org/sax/features/is-standalone/ value only after we have started parsing, but we cannot change the value of http://xml.org/sax/features/validation while parsing. The ship has already set sail.
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