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Validity errors

From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:21:17 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <200308201421.PAA04756@mcpherson.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org

Well-formed XML documents have an infoset even if they are invalid.
But some kinds of invalidity make it hard to assign reasonable values
to certain properties.  For example, a duplicate ID makes it
impossible to assign a meaningful value to an the [references]
property of an IDREF attribute referring to that ID.  This particular
case is handled in the spec - the [references] property has no value -
but there are others that aren't, such as the value of the [notations]
property when there are multiple declarations of the same notation
name.

We should find all such cases and resolve them, or perhaps state a
general rule.

-- Richard
Received on Thursday, 21 August 2003 17:07:02 GMT

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