- From: Dave Hollander <dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:06:47 -0600
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> At the risk of being simplistic here are my views (as a small fry > implementor) > > Q1: Must an XML parser report the first error it encounters? > Yes. > > Q2: Must an XML parser stop providing data after an error? > No. Q2a: Is it important to have interoperability defined for documents that have errors? Q2b: If so, how do we prevent implementation/market-share wars over emulating error behavior such that XML will not effectively become rewritten by the leading implementations? A2a: the argument seems to be, don't worry. Since most if not all XML documents will be machine generated they will all be well formed. I don't buy it! Programmers are human to and make as many errors as prose authors. A2b: ??? Dave Hollander
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