Re: problem with XML W3C Conformance Test Suite 20080205

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:36:57PM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> >   To me a plain well-formedness error clearly take precedence over a
> > namespace error since document which doesn't conform to REC-xml-names can
> > still be usable data, while a not well-formed one must break. 
> >   I still think the error is miscategorized, and will supress it from 
> > my regression runs. And I really don't think XML parsers should report
> > a namespace error there but the XML-1.0 wellformedness error which is
> > far more critical and general.
> 
> The test suite doesn't require any particular error message.  To
> pass the test all you have to do is reject the document.  The fact
> that you reject it because of the XML well-formedness error is
> unimportant.

  I disgree again.

  <a:/> 
  (or the example used in the test)

is a well formed document. It has no way to indicate it expect (or not) to
use namespace, a XML-1.0 parser must accept it. Now a NS-1.0 compliant parser
must report the violation, but nowhere from section 7 or 8 is the parser
instructed to *reject* the document.
Hence it's my opinion important that XML parser do not reject document
not namespace-well-formed , but as indicated they must report the error
if they want to be NS-1.0 compliant.

Assuming rejection for NS-1.0 compliance sounds wrong to me. This case
of the test suite seems to assume this.

Daniel

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