[XML-SIG] Dissabling DTDs or arranging the Attribute order

Thomas B. Passin tpassin@home.com
Mon, 4 Dec 2000 20:22:24 -0500


Martin v. Loewis wrote -

>
> I'm surprised it looks into the DTD. During parsing, you mean? Then
> you probably use xmlproc as the parser, which is validating. If you'd
> use pyexpat (or some other non-validating parser), it couldn't
> possibly use the DTD.
>
 What, don't the default parsers read the internal subset and insert default
values?  I never tried it, but always assumed they did (it's allowed by the
Rec for non-validating parsers).

Tom P