Re: XML namespaces on the Web

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Henri Sivonen writes:

> On Nov 17, 2009, at 21:23, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> Technically it doesn't have to simply abort: it can return
>> unprocessed information to the application. 
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jan/0009.html

In that message, you wrote:

> If you consider black box-distinguishable conformance, what's the  
> difference between the XML parser signaling an error and handing the  
> rest of the stream to the application which hands it to another non- 
> XML parser to continue and a parser signaling the first WF error and  
> continuing with the rest of the stream itself?

There's at least one crucial difference: in the first case, but not
the second, the "non-XML parser" can know what the application _is_,
and hence have the kind of information necessary for plausible fixup.
All the available fixup technologies I'm aware of, including TagSoup,
PyXUP and HTML5-processors, do fixup based on a knowledge of the
document type involved, without which success is _much_ less likely.

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