Re: Must vs. fatal error

> On the other hand, "Such errors are not fatal, but must be reported by 
> the xml:id processor to the application invoking it."

> XOM can check all the constraints. However, it has no concept of a 
> non-fatal error or a warning. For XOM, errors are either fatal or 
> nonexistent. XOM can either report a fatal error on spotting a violation 
> of am xml:id MUST or it can do nothing.

It does seem worth allowing for processors that can't return any
non-fatal errors when they are otherwise successful.  We are
considering removing the phrase "to the application invoking it" from
the quoted sentence, so that it would acceptable merely to print a
warning to the user.  We are not however happy with the idea of these
errors being silently ignored - that would not help interoperability.

Does that help you?

-- Richard