Partial and missing DTDs

• DTDs are needed for validation

• But DTD processing adds a burden

• For other purposes, DTD does very few jobs

  • Identify empty elements
  • Identify element-only content for whitespace considerations
  • Declare attribute types (case folding and normalization)
  • Propagate default attribute values
  • Declare entities

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