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Re: Final words, I think, on error handling

From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 08:57:17 -0400
Message-Id: <199705071257.IAA12100@nathaniel.ebt>
To: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
CC: tbray@textuality.com, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>Well-formedness is such a small step on the way to a useful document
>that it isn't of particular *value* to anyone: so why all the fuss? How
>many applications that will be able to read a well-formed XML document
>and do something useful with it?

A great number I expect. Browsers, certainly, do not *need* a valid
document in order to produce something meaningful.
Received on Wednesday, 7 May 1997 08:59:17 EDT

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