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Re: If DTD is unspecifed XML should not parse

From: RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@---------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 8/4/2007 12:17:00 AM

Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <-tidnfRJBenfiizbnZ2dnUVZ_tmhnZ2d@c...>,
> Joe Kesselman  <keshlam-nospam@c...> wrote:
> 
>>> I have a question regarding DTD and XML, is there any way to stop the
>>> parser in parsing the XML file if the DTD is not specified in the
>>> Doctype of the XML file and also throw an error ? I am using java by
>>> the way any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
>> If the DTD is not specified by the document type, validation is not 
>> performed and parsing runs normally.
> 
> But presumably the "invalid" indicator will be set (whatever that is
> for the parser in question), so if you want to reject invalid documents
> are well as ones without a DTD you can use that.
> 

Just because an XML document lacks a DTD doesn't mean it is invalid does 
it? It might conform to an external XSD schema or external DTD?


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