- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:12:13 -0500
- To: 'www-qa-wg@w3.org' <www-qa-wg@w3.org>
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AI-20050131-5 (KD) to propose additions to error mechanism section, 2005-02-07 Techniques 4.5 GP A [[[ one should keep in mind that extensibility may need new syntax tokens ([WEB-ARCH], extensibility), which can be smoothen by the use of mustIgnore and mustUnderstand policies: in the first case, a processor is required to ignore only the content that it cannot understand, in the second one, it is required to consider as an error that kind of content ]]] - http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20041122/ New text: Techniques 4.5 GP A one should keep in mind that extensibility may need new syntax tokens ([WEB-ARCH], extensibility), which can be smoothen by the use of two policies: * "must Understand": This mechanism is required when the data are critical for the technology, or when their lost would result in major flaws. * "must Ignore": This mechanism will be used when the processing of data would create a major flaw in the application. Then it becomes safe to ignore them altogether. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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