On February 16, 2005, Gareth Reakes wrote: >> In a standalone='yes' case with an external DTD, the author(s) >> are implicitly saying: >> 1) the DTD is useful for validation >> 2) the DTD is not required for well-formedness checking >> and its processing would not modify document information. >> In such a case, it might be nice not to process the external DTD. > > Unfortunately they may not be correct. They may not even have control > over the DTD. A validating parser is supposed to report that they were > not correct if it does look at the external subset.
Sure - that's true for validating. But I'm talking about non-validating processing. For example, Xerces is a dual mode parser: it can operate in validating mode, or in non-validating (well-formedness checking) mode. In non-validating mode, if standalone='yes' there is by definition no value in processing the external subset, per section 2.9 of the XML spec: " In a standalone document declaration, the value "yes" indicates that there are no external markup declarations which affect the information passed from the XML processor to the application. " I think that it is reasonable behavior for the parser to act on the supplied value for 'standalone'. Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
