[thelist] XML 2.0

Eric Cestari eric at ohmforce.com
Tue Feb 13 05:06:30 CST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Van Dijck" <peter at vardus.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] XML 2.0


> So could you use any tags in an XML doc, and the DTD only validates the
> tags it knows about and lets everything else through?
>
> Peter

Nope, the DTD describes the tree like structure of the elements. If the
validating parser meets an unexpected tag, it rejects the document as being
*not valid* though (maybe) *well formed*.

Eric






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