Re: Error recovery

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:53 PM, James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> wrote:

> I have been writing a parser that does error recovery.
>
> I have a case where I can't make up my mind which behaviour I prefer and I
> would like to get this group's input.
>
> Do you prefer
>
>   <e a=x/>
>
> to be treated as
>
> (a) <e a="x"/>, or
>
> (b) <e a="x/">
>
> ?
>

I prefer (a) since it's the likeliest interpretation of the author's
intention.


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