On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > > If you first specify a requirement on documents (always use ";") and > then specify mandatory error processing related to it (browsers must > recognize entity references without ";"), then you have effectively > defined the error as a feature, though a deprecated one. But you can > proclaim that you have now defined a stricter version of the language. No, if you say something is non-conforming, it's non-conforming. Whether the error handling is defined recovery, reverse-engineered undefined recovery, or a fatal error has no effect on how strict the language is. The language's strictness is up to its conformance criteria. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 07:20:41 GMT
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