- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:51:44 +0100
- To: elharo@metalab.unc.edu
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Dean Edridge <dean@dean.org.nz>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Also sprach Elliotte Harold:
> It's an interesting idea, and might even work (though I'm skeptical) but
> it very much raises the bar for implementing parsers, and is contrary to
> the design of XML at a very deep level. In essence, it is a fundamental
> rejection of one of the core values of XML. It is the polar opposite of
> draconian error handling.
Yes. Draconian error handling was a mistake; it punishes users and
rewards implementations that break the standard. A simple error
recovery mechinanism would have made XML web-friendly and the world
would, possibly, have been different.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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