- From: Joe English <jenglish@crl.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:06:49 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Dave Hollander <dmh@hpsgml.fc.hp.com> wrote: > > Q2a: Is it important to have interoperability defined for documents > that have errors? Absolutely not! If the XML spec mandates any kind of error recovery policy, then illegal documents containing errors detectable by that policy will in effect become legal XML. If a document is illegal according to the letter of the law, but all applications are required to interpret it in the same way, then it is for all practical purposes "legal" after all. A principal goal of XML is that it be easy to parse. Any mandated error recovery policy will make it harder to parse, with no real benefit to authors or users. Tim's proposal (paraphrased) that "an application _must_ barf if it sees an error" is perhaps too strict; I would argue that anything other than "an application _may_ barf if it sees an error" is also too strict. --Joe English jenglish@crl.com
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