- From: <paul.downey@bt.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:37:44 -0000
- To: <jmarsh@microsoft.com>, <jean-jacques.moreau@crf.canon.fr>
- Cc: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Jonathan Marsh wrote: > There are analogous situations - for instance, I can open an XML > document, stream it in, successfully process the information I find > early in the file, and not report that 1Mb down in the file there is a > well-formedness error. The document is not well-formed, but a > particular processor may not be able to detect and report the error. Funnily enough i hit this very issue only yesterday. I had to process a set of very large XML documents in which i was only interested in a single element at the top of the file. The cost of processing the whole document would have been prohibitive, and anyway i only cared if my fragment of each document was well formed. I guess there *are* cases where a defence of Postel's Law is useful :^) Paul -- Paul Sumner Downey Web Services Integration BT Exact
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