Why doesn VTD-XML support DTD and external entities?
There are two ways to look at this XML spec 1.0. One way is that it is an article created by visionaries to tell the world how things should be done. XimpleWare views it the other way: XML 1.0 actually evolves and we believe that some parts of the spec, such as DTD and external entities, have in effect been deprecated because they are complex but not very useful.