Bob Hutchison wrote: >>The a document's infoset may also depend on a DTD or Schema, as default and >>implied values may be added. >> > > Yes, for DTD at least. I don't know about the schema though. Does the W3C > schema have a special position? What about RelaxNG, Trex, Relax, schematron, > and so on? Do they affect the contents of the infoset? As I write this, I'm > starting to think that maybe only the DTD can affect the infoset. Hmmm. AFAICS: For well-formed parsers, only the internal DTD subset has to be read. With validating parsers and Schemas, I don't know; we'll see later. (currently priority 3) Tobi -- Tobias Reif http://www.pinkjuice.com/myDigitalProfile.xhtml go_to('www.ruby-lang.org').get(ruby).play.create.have_fun http://www.pinkjuice.com/ruby/