Re: validating xhtml entities

Dave Pawson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.nxml.general
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nxml is a tool for Relax NG Jesse?
   sort of not interested in DTD's?
Try another tool for DTD validation, I use rxp
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html

HTH

On 18 May 2012 16:38, Jesse Alama <[email protected]> wrote:
> I like the way that nXML mode validates my XML documents on the fly.
> It seems that concerning entities, though, there can be false
> negatives (i.e., nXML says that the document is valid, but it is not).
> For example, in XHTML, one can write, say
>
>  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <head>
>  <title>An XHTML 1.0 Strict standard template</title>
>  </head>
>  <body>
>  <p>&nbsp;</p>
>  </body>
>  </html>
>
> and this document is (correctly) judged to be valid.  Plugging in a
> bogus entity
>
>  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>  <head>
>  <title>An XHTML 1.0 Strict standard template</title>
>  </head>
>  <body>
>  <p>&bogus;</p>
>  </body>
>  </html>
>
> is likewise judged to be valid, but this is not correct, at least
> under the definition of "valid" that matters for my purposes (the
> result needs to be valid XHTML -- validator.w3.org flags the bogus
> entity as bad XHTML).
>
> To verify entities in XHTML, one could just scan the document,
> comparing every entity occurring inside it against a fixed list of
> acceptable XHTML entities.  I would rather not code such a thing,
> though, unless it's really necessary.  Judging from the documenation
> (in the "DTDs" section of the nXML info docs), I gather that indeed
> nXML does not care to "validate" entities in the sense I intend.  But
> perhaps I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jesse
>
> --
> Jesse Alama
> http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~alama/
>
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