- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:52:19 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote:
>> <?xml-stylesheet href="data:text/css,*{font-weight:bold}"?>
>> <root>text <outer>outer <inner>inner</outer>
>
> I assume the stylesheet PI is irrelevant here...
It's relevant, because it raises the question of whether the styling
should be applied.
> It seems you're asking whether it's legal for a recipient to start
> rendering before the full content has been received (which of course is
> something users want).
No, I'm asking whether it's legal to leave the rendering in place on
encountering a well-formedness error. Which it clearly is, as far as I
can tell.
> As far as I can tell, there's no reason not to do that; but if the XML
> content turns out to be non-wellformed (let's please ignore "invalid" in
> this context), the UA should notify the user that the message was
> broken, for instance by the famous "yellow screen of death".
In other words, there's no interoperability here. I think we all agree
on that. I just claim that's an undesirable situation, whereas some
people seem to feel that it's somewhere between OK and to be actively
aimed for.
-Boris
Received on Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:53:13 UTC