Re: Comments on HTML WG face to face meetings in France Oct 08

On Dec 31, 2008, at 15:09, Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>
>> I believe this is a latter-day interpretation that has sprung up  
>> now that Draconian failure has become unpopular but it is neither  
>> supported by the record of drafting the XML spec nor supported by  
>> the understanding of XML processor developers as evidenced by their  
>> actions.
>
> I think you misunderstand what's being proposed. No one is  
> suggesting that an XML parser should do something different, and the  
> record is clear on that. However going back to the first edition  
> spec, and the e-mail you cite, it's clear that parsers are allowed  
> to pass *unparsed text* to the application after encountering a  
> fatal error, and that the application is free to do whatever it  
> wants to with that text, including passing it to a non-XML parser.

If you consider black box-distinguishable conformance, what's the  
difference between the XML parser signaling an error and handing the  
rest of the stream to the application which hands it to another non- 
XML parser to continue and a parser signaling the first WF error and  
continuing with the rest of the stream itself?

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

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