Re: Sudden death: request for missing input

At 1:39 PM 4/28/97, altheim wrote:

>Requiring conforming processors to notify applications, and requiring
>conforming applications to notify their users seems hardly draconian.
>After notification, I think you are correct: it is then up to the developer
>to decide what is appropriate in the specific XML application. But the
>notification must be mandatory, otherwise we're back to the Web's current
>broken error handling behaviour.

Of course.  What's draconian is to require that the parser *not* attempt
any error recovery after finding the error.  That seems to be what some
people want.

Dave Peterson
SGMLWorks!

davep@acm.org