Well, how about disallowing DTDs for validation, just allow the
entitty declaring functionality with only internal entity declarations
allowed, external DTDs should have absolute url. That gets rid of a
good deal of complexity.
Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Rick Jelliffe <> wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
> >
> > In 2002, I proposed XML-SW (http://www.textuality.com/xml/xmlSW.html)
> > which retains namespaces but discards DTD's (thus entities and
> > notations and so on) and the <!DOCTYPE>, also rolling in the
> > Information Set and xml:base. I still think it's a good idea.
> +1 (except I'd like for all the W3C and math special character entities
> to be built-in: too many people like them and XHTML uses them)
>
> Cheers
> Rick Jelliffe
>
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