Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XInclude support in Saxon and Xalan

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 10:29 AM -0400 10/10/02, ed nixon wrote:


>Are we at the point with DocBook that it's possible to "black box" 
>validation as Rusty suggests? Do it before or after or neither and, 
>ultimately, swap and reorder the black boxes at will?

I have an existence proof that it is. For a while I was doing this 
almost daily with Processing XML with Java (though that book is 
pretty much complete and I've moved on to my next project). Sometimes 
I validated before inclusion, sometimes after. Sometimes I used valid 
documents. Sometimes I used invalid documents. Sometimes all of the 
above.

Also, note that it's important to distinguish validation from entity 
resolution.  They are often confused, but they can also be broken out 
into separate processes. Validation requires entity resolution but 
entity resolution does not require validation.
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