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Re: [XOM-interest] FAQ versus Tutorial on validating against a schema

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Jon Steelman <jon.steelman AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] FAQ versus Tutorial on validating against a schema
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:36:59 -0400

Jon Steelman wrote:

Item #10 in the FAQ ( http://www.xom.nu/faq.xhtml ) shows how to
validate against a schema, but the approach is different than that in
the XOM Tutorial ( http://www.cafeconleche.org/XOM/tutorial.xhtml ).
Why are they different? Why does the FAQ state that "XOM does not have
built-in support for schema validation" but the Tutorial uses the
Builder(boolean validate) constructor which seems to indicate built-in
support for validation.?

In an XML context the unqualified word "validation" refers to validation against a DTD, not validation against a W3C XML schema language schema. Normally XOM can validate against DTDs just fine.

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[XOM-interest] FAQ versus Tutorial on validating against a schema, Jon Steelman, 04/07/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] FAQ versus Tutorial on validating against a schema, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 04/07/2005