- From: Eduardo Casais <casays@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:08:09 -0800 (PST)
- To: public-bpwg-ct@w3.org
> However, once again (sadly, bordering on shame) there
> are even cases where devices might not behave as
> expected unless some "well-formedness" rules are
> broken.
Perhaps, but I have a hard time figuring out a concrete case for this, since the example you give:
> There are devices that sometimes have trouble
> with body-less tags whose "/" is not preceded by a
> space. For example, <br> and <br /> are ok, but <br/>
> causes issues.
raises no issue at all. An XML document formatted so that empty elements are of the form <element /> is well-formed, according to the XML specification:
[44] EmptyElemTag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '/>' [WFC: Unique Att Spec]
In this case, while there might be restrictions as to the instantiation of the XML syntax, the result does satisfy the well-formedness constraints of the standard.
What well-formed documents means for other types may be an issue though, but if the concept is not even defined for a type, I doubt we can say anything formal at all about the resulting documents (not even talking about validity).
E.Casais
Received on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:10:31 UTC