Re: Validing parser required?

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:02:33 -0400, Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> In the interest of being "cleanly and thoroughly specified", the AtomPub  
> Working Group should decide whether consumers should be required to use  
> validating XML parsers in order to consistently and correctly handle the  
> Atom feed and protocol.

I think that Atom SHOULD NOT use a DOCTYPE or DTD to validate. I'm not  
sure it should be enforced validated at all, but if it should, the way to  
do it is with XSD, RNG or some other more updated definition language.

So, I'd say a clear and bastant «no» to DOCTYPE's and DTD's, but a «dunno»  
to other validation mechanisms. I think a normative XSD would be nice, but  
how we would knit it into the specification is something I have no clue  
about.

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