Brett McLaughlin [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > I see what you are doing here, but you are assuming that all the
> > > required elements and attributes are present. If not in production,
> > > this is certainly not a given in development. You might want to turn on
> > > validation, as well (See my note above).
> > >
<...snip...>
> > On a related note: if users write their XML docs to the schema and we write
> > code to the schema, why wouldn't we want to turn on parser validation and
> > enforce the contract between the mapping doc and the schema? Is it because
> > the schema may not always be accessible (to the end-user and/or developer)?
> > I've never understood why you would go to the trouble of creating a schema (or
> > a DTD) if you weren't going to require valid XML docs. Just wondering.
>
> I said to do that... did you miss that?
>
No, I didn't miss it. You're wording implied (to me, at least) that in some
cases you _might not_ want to turn on validation, and I couldn't come up with
a scenario where that made sense.
--
Christopher Elkins
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