REC-xml-19980210 Concerning validation, in section 3

Richard Emberson (emberson@faslab.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:24:41 -0700


Concerning validation, in section 3 it states:
An element is valid if there is a declaration matching
elementdecl where the Name matches the element type

and also:
The declaration matches ANY, and the types of all child
elements have been declared.

Isn't the second condition redundant. If a child element has not been
declared then the validity violation will be caught the first statement.
Which is to say, if a child has not been declared, then when the
child element's text is being parsed, its lack of declaration will be
caught by a validating parser at that point and there is no need to
check for this at the parent element level.