- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 18:05:59 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
No more opinions from me, but one point of information: At 05:48 PM 5/6/97 -0700, Bill Smith wrote: >In a prior posting I asked whether an error must be reported when an >XML page transfer (to a browser) is interrupted ... >If this is not required, it will be possible to receive an "invalid" >document but process a portion of it as if it were valid. This seems >contrary to the goal of the draconian model Yes, transmission errors are more or less equivalent to WF errors in the draconian model. Clearly in the Net environment you have to allow stream processing. You motor along until the bytes stop coming in, or they are malformed; then you stop. A good implementation will be able to tell the difference, of course. -Tim
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