- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:48:01 +0000
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>, "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Cc: ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
> > - Steven’s remark "And assuring those characters don't get through to > > the output is the grammar author's responsibility” leads to a story in > > which an attempt to write out a non-XML character in ixml output is > > an error in the grammar. Possibly, like other cases that have been > > brought up, it’s what I would call a “run-time error in the grammar” — > > that is, an error in the grammar that may be caught only for some > > inputs, and which a processor is not obligated to detect in other > > cases. > > Either way, the user has made an error and surely must be > told of it. No problem with that. If the serializer finds a non-XML character being serialized, it can report it, just as with invalid element names. Steven
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