From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T11:46:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25142] Re: XML support in the standard lib;	whatexactly?

On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 20:56, James Britt (rubydev) wrote:
> Validation is part of the XML 1.0 spec.  A Ruby parser would need to be 
> able to provide validation at the request of the user.

Not necessarily.  There are lots of non-validating parsers in other
languages, with no provisions for validation.  The XML 1.0 spec
definitely allows such things.

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