- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafalov@socs.uts.EDU.AU>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:34:59 +1000 (EST)
- To: www-dom@w3.org
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Mike Champion wrote: > At 07:17 AM 10/17/97 -0400, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > The DOM is built from the output of and XML or HTML parser. Only "well > formed" XML or HTML may be meaningfully represented in the DOM. The major > browsers, for good business reasons, I suppose, attempt to "make sense" out > of HTML that is not well formed, but don't count on the DOM doing anything > along these lines. > Ok, just to be cristal clear. If I am writing a browser and it uses DOM to represent the parsed document and my parser can "make sense" of partially wrong input, the erorrs should be discarded as "non-significant" and would not show up in DOM. This way, if internal structure was written out from the DOM structure, any errors that were in original document would not appear in the output? Alternatively, should we assume that by the time browsers will implement DOM, all documents out there will be well-formed and browser can just reject non well-formed documents? Regards, Alex. Ps. Lenin has once wrote that by the time communism will arive, no thiefs, robbers and other bad elements would be left in society, just by the fact that it is better to be a good guy then a bad guy. He also expected communism to arrive within something like 20 years.
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