- From: Timur Mehrvarz <timur.mehrvarz@web.de>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:17:20 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Kai Hendry" <hendry@iki.fi>, public-bpwg-comments@w3.org
On 07.03.2007, at 09:50, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:44:28 +0100, Timur Mehrvarz > <timur.mehrvarz@web.de> wrote: >> It is good idea to educate authors about the advantages of XML >> conformant content. It is also good, for mobile phones (and >> desktop GUI applications) to be rather forgiving about possible >> document structure issues. In particular, when document viewing >> apps deal with remote documents. For the Web to evolve and become >> more mobile friendly, is also a good thing. > > I very much agree! However, the XML specification explicitly > forbids this. And we should try to follow the specifications, I > think, otherwise it becomes a mess. Then again, maybe that already > happened due to the other mobile browsers out there... One way > forward would be defining a version of XML that has explicit error > recovery rules for user agents to follow. (So that basically you > can deterministically create an XML document from any string.) A specification can explicitly forbid a group of (enduser) applications to be forgiving about Non-Well-Formed-XML documents? A type of document it otherwise doesn't even talk about? ;) Maybe you can point me to the relevant text. Timur
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