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At 12:46 AM -0400 4/15/04, Stephen D. Williams wrote: >I could just as easily argue that every application has to perform >schema validation, and then at a further level a complete >application-level sanity validation (since DTD/Schema only goes so >far), then referential integrity to database tables, etc. Certainly >very paranoid applications processing potentially unfriendly data >need to do these levels, but it is not required of many other >applications. 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. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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