- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:02:51 -0000
- To: "Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Cc: <www-svg@w3.org>
"Robin Berjon" <robin.berjon@expway.fr> > On Jan 11, 2006, at 17:14, Jim Ley wrote: >> loosening error conditions don't change the fact of what is error- >> correctable by a good implementation is likely wider still, by just >> removing the must-ignore requirement it gives the freedom to >> implementors to do the right thing by their users without relaxing what >> authors must do to ensure their content is interopable. > > I still don't quite get you, how do you error-correct <rect x='dahut'/>? you don't, that's clearly an error, but if you just go for rules like "remove leading and trailing whitespace", then what do you do with things like: color="#ff 00 aa" that's easily correctable too, and if you then write the rules that say how to correct that what do you do with the next example, and the next, and the next. If these rules are left up to implementations (and I would of course encourage implementations to agree on error recovery like this) then more things can be recovered than those that are thought of now. Jim.
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