Imported from previous forum
Hi,
I am starting a project on FIX, and would like to know if DTDs are ever embeded within the docucments? Also is validation ever a requirement in implementations? Can someone please help me on this?
Thanks so much,
JImmy
[ original email was from Dean Kauffman - dean.kauffman@tradeweb.com ]
While not a requirement, in order to be compliant with commercial FIX engines you may encounter, FIXML documents should be validated against the official external DTD using a standard 3rd-party parser. One of the most powerful benefits of using XML is that once a document is validated, processing or transforming it can be done with much less error handling.
> Hi,
>
> I am starting a project on FIX, and would like to know if DTDs are ever embeded within the docucments? Also is validation ever a requirement in implementations? Can someone please help me on this?
> Thanks so much,
> JImmy
>