- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:14:29 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- CC: elharo@metalab.unc.edu, www-tag@w3.org
Bijan Parsia wrote: > ... > I'm not clear why one category of errors (well formedness ones) are so > much worse than other levels (e.g., validity ones). They are all errors. > ... ...on different levels... > ... > One nice thing about XML is separating these classes of errors so that > even if the document is not valid wrt the relevant schema, you can still > work with it (transform it, etc.)... Indeed! > ...What's so much worse about well > formedness errors? > ... By definition, that's an error that prevents the XML processor from doing it's job, turning a byte sequence into a sequence of elements, attributes, text data, etc. > ... BR, Julian
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