- From: W. Eliot Kimber <eliot@isogen.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 11:07:17 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Matthew Fuchs wrote: > > On Jun 13, 9:59am, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > > > > In all of these discussions, it's critical to keep separate the source, > > which is what XML lang (like SGML) defines the rules for, and the parsed > > result of processing that source, which is what XML Link (like HyTime) > > operates on. Once the documents have been put into memory, issues like > > well-formedness and even validity go away, because those are syntax issues, > > and syntax is transcended once the document is parsed (and only resurface > > when you want to create a new source document). > > Well-formedness is a syntax issue. Validity remains an issue for the > application because it is also a statement about the abstract structure of the > document. Validation is only an issue if you make it one--editors, for example, have states where validation issues are ignored. Browsers may never care about validity because it doesn't matter if the document conforms to a particular schema. Perhaps it's better to say that validity *can be ignored* in the abstraction, not that it goes away. Cheers, E.
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