Re: XML files referencing DTDs via HTTP
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:36:25AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes:
>
> [DTD validation]
> > These delays have happened to me repeatedly at package configuration
> > time on systems that *do* have interfaces up, and which don't require
> > proxies to reach the Internet. The non-functionality of the URLs was
> > not a result of my local system configuration; presumably, the sites
> > that were supposed to be hosting the DTDs were down.
>
> AFAIK, the URL doesn't even have to exist--it is only required to be
> unique, at least from what I've read about XML Schemas. (I'm not an
> XML guru, though.)
That's true. It can be any string. The fact that it just happens to
look like an HTTP url and DTD is actually at that URL is not part of the
standard, AFAIK.
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