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• Subject: Re: Fast text output from SAX?
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:13:11 -0400
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> You're mixing apples and oranges. Schema validation (even DTD 
> validation) is explicitly optional in XML. Furthermore you can process 
> an invalid document. That is definitely not true of a malformed 
> document. Failing to check well-formedness is not an option.

But if the xml "alternative" is not a text format, well-formedness may 
not have an equivalent.

Cheers,

Tom P

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