- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:27:07 -0500
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>, public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Simon Pieters scripsit:
> Indeed, but it would be relatively easy to make the XML5 algorithm report
> an error for anything that is an error in XML 1.0.
I don't think it would be so easy, unless by reverse engineering some
existing XML parser, which XML5 as written does not do.
> The DOM doesn't require a root element. For XML APIs that do require a
> root element, you could use the XML 1.0 behavior for this case and report
> a fatal error.
So much for the idea of all octet-sequences being convertible to XML.
> XML5 doesn't ignore the internal subset.
If that's so, it's not expressed in the algorithm as published. I can't judge
algorithms that aren't written down anywhere.
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Only do what only you can do. John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
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Received on Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:27:51 UTC