[Chicago] python and xml

Wed Jun 7 18:55:30 CEST 2006

On Jun 5, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
> It validates that it is syntactically valid XML, but it doesn't check
> the DTD.  As an example, this is syntactically valid XML:
>
> <html>
>   <title>The title</title>
> </html>
>
> But the (X)HTML DTD I believe disallows that, and this is valid (X) 
> HTML:
>
> <html>
>   <head>
>    <title>The title</title>
>   </head>
> </html>

Validation has a special meaning in xml-land -- and what you are  
talking about here as 'syntactically valid' is commonly called well- 
formed in xml-land.

Pretty much all xml parsing libraries require at least well-formedness.

//Ed