- From: James Fuller <jim@webcomposite.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:06:19 +0200
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
- Cc: public-microxml@w3.org
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Michael Sokolov <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 ;) ) it would be nice somehow we could link to the output of http://www.w3.org/community/xml-er/ maybe at Lyon TPAC we can kick the can down the road on error recovery for XML ? J
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