At 6:23 PM +0100 8/26/03, David Carlisle wrote:
If you do have a DTD then the result drprnds on whether the non
validating parser you are using reads the DTD. (The XML spec allows it
not to read the DTD).
Yes, the XML spec allows that. However, in my opinion the XSL spec
does not allow that. (There is some argument on the interpretation of
the spec on this point.)) An XSLT processor that does not resolve
external entity references is nonconformant.
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