Argh...Entities

[John Cowan]

Paul Prescod wrote:


> Even so, I don't follow your argument. The schema needs to validate that
> there is a unparsed entity with a particular name. Why does the
> declaration have to be done in the schema?
> 
> It makes perfect sense to me that a *document* should declare what
> external resources it needs (through a URL or entity declaration) and that
> the *schema* would verify that an element that is supposed to reference a
> resource actually does (whether through a URL or entity).

Your argument is sound.  I am converted.
Down with all entity declarations in XSchema!

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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