On Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 5:46:28 PM, George wrote: GCB> Hello Chris, GCB> As I said in v7 it will be possible to disable the DTD validation when a GCB> schema is also specified (in v6 that was possible only if an XML Schema GCB> was also specified). Yes - I was trying to demonstrate that this is a desirable feature. Not all features of a beta make it to the release version - and people don't always comment on features that they like. GCB> Do you need to disable the DTD validation even in GCB> cases when a schema of some sort is not specified and there is only a GCB> DTD specified? No, in that case the intention of the author is not clear, so validation should be offered. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG