- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:16 -0500
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: Krzysztof Maczy??ski <1981km@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Lachlan Hunt scripsit: > This would have the unfortunate side effect of causing existing XML 1.0 > parsers encountering <?xml parse="lax"?> to throw a well-formedness > error, thus losing all the benefits of backwards compatibility that the > original XML5 proposal has. That's a good side effect. It tells the XML 1.x parser right up front that it should reject this document. > No, the parsing algorithm should be determined at parse time depending > on the needs of the application. A web browser, for example, would > typically always want to use graceful error recovery for web content, > like XHTML, SVG, etc. Nothing prevents browsers from doing so today. Why don't they? -- Winter: MIT, John Cowan Keio, INRIA, cowan@ccil.org Issue lots of Drafts. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan So much more to understand! Might simplicity return? (A "tanka", or extended haiku)
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