- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:40:26 +0100
- To: public-xml-er@w3.org
Liam R E Quin Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:59:06 +0100 > I'm trying to make sure that we enable user agents to give warning > messages to developers and authors. One somewhat different strategy for > error recovery (unlikely to fly for a Web browser but very suitable for > an XML editor) might be > (1) parse as XML > (2) on error, offer to load a DTD (often the only way to deal with > "unknown entity" error) W3C's own browser editor - Amaya - does it differently: It "presses" the user to fix well-formed errors. But when that has been done, and only unknown attributes and elements are left, then allows you to work on your document - but continues to display a red button to signal that there are errors. > (3) if that doesn't work, offer to try "automatic fixup" -- Leif Halvard Silli
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