- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:38:12 +0100
- To: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
- CC: W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
... so it seems we have to agree to disagree. But building the new validator on Xerces-C will satisfy most of my needs, so I'm happy enough :) Tobi Terje Bless wrote: > Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> wrote: > > >>Terje Bless wrote: >> >>>The limitations in OpenSP's XML support are: >>> >>I'm looking forward to when a real XML validator will be used. >> > > OpenSP *is* a "real XML validator"; more so, in fact, then most as it > actually treats XML as a limited profile of SGML. :-) > > > >>It would be best if several choices would be offered to the user: >> >> * Xerces-C (eg DOMCount or other Xerces-based) >> * Xerces-J >> * xmllint >> * others >> > > I disagree. The inner workings of the Validator should be kept from the > user when it is possible to do so. Offering multiple backend parsers to end > users carries a cost in usability and maintenance/support with little > actual value gained. Having support for multiple back-end parsers is good > from a development perspective -- and is allready on our TODO list for that > reason -- but probably with only one officially supported backend at any > given time. > > Right now it looks like that backend will be Xerces-C[0], with possibly an > option for OpenSP since we need that for SGML in any case. > > > > [0] - Well, Xerces-P, actually, but as these are just Perl bindings for > Xerces-C it amounts to mostly the same thing. > > > -- http://www.pinkjuice.com/
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