Re: Intent of ER-XML

On 2/27/2012 10:50 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:
> First, it seems potentially hard to test. With XML there are clearly
> defined WF/non-WF distinctions so that you can feed parsers a large set
> of WF documents and a large set of non-WF documents and those that pass
> do the right thing for both.

Really? Where is the correct output for an XML processor specified in the
case of well-formed input? That's exactly my point: the XML Recommendation
doesn't specify that, and therefore it's been successfully used as the
basis for many different processor specifications.

> I'd suggest that we can layer that as console.log(document.innerHTML).
> 1/2;-)

Yeah, well, I assume it's clear that the point is not to get the well 
formed stream, but to debate the merits of using it as a model in the 
specification for documenting in a standardized way the tree to which each 
non-well formed input corresponds. Of course, if we decide to go the route 
of specifying the DOM for XML-ER, it may be handy in some cases at runtime 
to be able to serialize it.

Noah

Received on Monday, 27 February 2012 16:24:13 UTC