- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:00:01 +0000
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: public-xml-er@w3.org
On 29/02/2012 17:25, Mark Baker wrote: > So one hand I wanted to ask the seemingly innocuous question, "What > media type?", and on the other, I wonder if we really want to go down > this path. > Others can speak up if they disagree, but I think there has been an implicit assumption so far that xml-er would be used as an alternative parser for things served with an xml media type. This would match current practice where xml editors and the like already accept broken xml (otherwise they wouldn't be able to help the user to fix it) and other systems have been known to fall back to html parsing if xml parsing fails. Using an xml-er parser rather than an html parser is hopefully going to be a better match for the intention, and if an xml-er parser acts like an xml parser on well formed input there is no need to parse with xml first and use xml-er only on failure as that is not externaly disnguishable from just parsing with xml-er. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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