- From: J. Graham <jg307@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:07:48 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Apr 12, 2005, at 12:31, Ian Hickson wrote: > >> Many people feel that a minor typo in their document should not cause >> their page to stop rendering altogether. I have spoken with a _lot_ of >> authors who really do not like XML's draconian error handling, including >> many authors who are always ensuring their documents are valid. > > Recently, I made a typo and left out the slash in an end tag (on the tag soup > side). Since Gecko forces tag soup into a tree, I didn't notice anything in > Firefox. Indeed it would be useful if Firefox had the ability to log parse errors to the console (clearly this would have to be off by default). I don't see how this affects whether the current XML error handling scheme is at-all sutiable for use on the web though.
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