Re: Polyglot markup and authors

"Michael[tm] Smith" wrote:
> 
> > Error-correcting parsers can't begin streaming output (using, say,
> > SAX) to the rest of the toolchain until they've finished parsing
> 
> That's not actually true. You might want to take at look at the
> validator.nu HTML parser for an example.
> 

OK, I will.

> 
> If by unclosed tag you mean a start tag that lacks an end tag, then
> for many elements in HTML that's not defined as an error and never
> has been. XML made it an error. But HTML parsers aren't XML.
>

You're right.  One of the reasons I've always used CSE validator over
w3c's is because it reports this as a warning; despite being valid SGML
it was historically non-interoperable in browsers.  So I've always
considered it an error even though I know better, but this has nothing
to do with XML.

XML making this an error is one reason XML's stream-processable, to the
point I can take it for granted regardless of parser.  If validator.nu's
parser streams, I don't think I can take that feature as representative
of the class.  Time will tell.

-Eric