- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:32:14 -0500
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 12/10/13 4:41 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: >>> Allowing user agents to stop parsing after a parse error (BTW, where >>> exactly does the WHATWG HTML Living Standard allow that?) >> >> Did you try following the links in my mail? Let me try again, but this >> time do actually follow the link: >> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/parsing.html#parse-error >> > > “This section only applies to user agents, data mining tools, and > conformance checkers.” So what about conformance of documents? You asked where the standard says that a user agent can stop after a parse error. That's the section linked above. Conformance of documents is pretty simple: any document with a parse error is non-conformant last I checked, though exactly where it says that varies depending on the syntactic construct. > If browsers are allowed to quit, or to proceed, then this is a very > theoretic proposition. Conformance of documents is always a "theoretic proposition" if all possible inputs have defined processing. -Boris
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