RE: 12. Are C1 controls Unicode non-characters disallowed?

But no one ever successfully made any bad XML files :)


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From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche@ogbuji.net]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 6:44 PM
To: public-microxml@w3.org
Subject: Re: 12. Are C1 controls Unicode non-characters disallowed?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Michael Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net<mailto:sokolov@falutin.net>> wrote:
Yes - some kind of recovery process would be a boon; +1 for allowing parsers to replace these disallowed codepoints with the special Unicode character reserved to mean "unknown or unrepresentable character": FFFD.

Yes. MicroXML's policy on error handling states that the parser must report that the document is not a MicroXML document, but having done so, it is free to recover as it pleases.

David's point and yours here is a good one, and it's the lesson I think most have learned the hard way from XML's experiment with draconian error handling.  I think most would agree that experiment failed (just as Postel's Law predicted it would ;) )


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