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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 10:48:03 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Pierpaolo Fumagalli wrote:
> 
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> >
> > No, Apache config _is_ validated.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Well, that's cool, but I'm not sure I understand the "own DTD" aspect:
> > we require a mix (that is, a module needs to be able to say "these tags
> > are valid within that other modules tag-so-and-so").
> >
> Sorry, but I think these two are contraddicting... How can you have a
> DTD if you don't know the elements that are in your XML file? Either you
> generate a DTD depending on your Apache configuration (so for whatever
> module gets compiled in or loaded as DSO) or you cannot properly
> "validate" (in the strict term of validation against a DTD) the source.

Exactly. This is the point I'm making (which is why I keep calling it an
XDTD).

Cheers,

Ben.

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