Re: Must vs. fatal error

> > Does that help you?
> 
> Not really, no. A library such as XOM should not talk to the user in any 
> way. Specifically, it should not print anything on System.out or 
> System.err. (This is a longstanding complaint I have about Xerces. XOM 
> goes to some lengths to hide the warning Xerces prints.) XOM talks only 
> to the client application, and it's up to the client application to 
> decide what to show or not show the end-user. Indeed, in many cases 
> there may not be any end user or even a console where messages printed 
> on System.out and System.err can be seen.

In that case, I don't see how we can do much.  A system that can't
return non-fatal errors to the application and can't display them to
the user just has no way to signal non-fatal errors.  And I don't
think that this should result in standards only being able to require
errors to be reported if they are fatal.  So I think you will just
have to be non-conformant in this respect.

-- Richard