[xmlsec] building without DTD validation support in libxml

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:37:02AM -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
> >xmlsec needs DTD to have a conformant XPath
> >implementation
> 
> Why?

  you need to parse the DTD to have attribute defaultingi which are
a requirement for the XPath data model.
I agree it's not a 100% clear cut, parsing DTD and doing attribute
defaulting does not mean validating.

Daniel

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