- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 19:39:28 -0400
- To: "Jonathan Marsh" <jmarsh@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org>
At 2:54 PM -0700 6/9/04, Jonathan Marsh wrote: >This is a bit tricky, as the useful thing for authors is to flag the >error as early as possible, but that precludes some implementation >strategies. So the WG agreed to add a statement to this effect: > >--- >A syntactically invalid IRI <termref def="dt-must">should</termref> be >reported as a <termref def="dt-error">fatal error</termref>, but some >implementations may find it impractical to distinguish this case from a ><termref def="dt-resource-error">resource error</termref>. >--- > I don't really mid it being a fatal error. However, I dislike making this an implementation option. I prefer to lock down the behavior as much as possible for the sake of interoperability. Could you elaborate on the implementation strategies requiring this to be a fatal error would preclude? They're not obvious to me. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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