- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:39:38 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
----- Forwarded message from Benjamin Franz ----- From xml-dev-errors@lists.xml.org Tue Jul 17 08:46:09 2001 Envelope-to: cowan@mercury.ccil.org Received: from one.elistx.com ([209.116.252.130]) by mercury.ccil.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15MUEr-0001Jx-00 for <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:46:09 -0400 Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGM00K01B84LA@eListX.com> for cowan@mercury.ccil.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:41:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ELIST-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGM00K04B81L4@eListX.com> (original mail from snowhare@nihongo.org); Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:40:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGM00K01B80L1@eListX.com> for xml-dev@elist.lists.xml.org (ORCPT xml-dev@lists.xml.org); Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:40:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DIRECTORY-DAEMON.eListX.com by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) id <0GGM00K01B80L0@eListX.com> for xml-dev@elist.lists.xml.org (ORCPT xml-dev@lists.xml.org); Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from high-mountain.nihongo.org (high-mountain.nihongo.org [209.76.104.64]) by eListX.com (PMDF V6.0-24 #44856) with ESMTP id <0GGM00K0FB7ZHK@eListX.com> for xml-dev@lists.xml.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by high-mountain.nihongo.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA07410 for <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 05:39:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 05:39:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@nihongo.org> Subject: Re: Well-formed Blueberry In-reply-to: <002701c10e84$45564c40$37eee1d2@mediafusion.co.jp> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0107170533270.6930-100000@high-mountain.nihongo.org> List-Owner: <mailto:xml-dev-help@lists.xml.org> List-Post: <mailto:xml-dev@lists.xml.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=subscribe> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev> List-Help: <http://lists.xml.org/elists/admin_email.shtml>, <mailto:xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org?body=help> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Joel Rees wrote: > > jcowan@reutershealth.com clarified: > > > > Therefore, Blueberry parsers have to keep both sets of tables. Luckily, > > the Blueberry table is a strict superset of the 1.0 table, > > I read "strict superset", and I think that anything that passed the XML 1.0 > parser should pass the Blueberry parser. Is this correct? If it is, why > should a Blueberry capable parser care if a doc that labels itself XML 1.0 > slips in a blueberry? I missed the posts that explained the specific damage. > (Or maybe I'm just brain-dead, anyway. It's been a hot, humid summer here.) > > Okay, I can see that developers will want to have the wall available to > check against when developing for a context in which some users may be > restricted to XML 1.0. End users won't need the wall, however? Yes, they do. If a Blueberry parser generates/accepts _badly formed 1.0_ then it will not reliably interoperate with 1.0 parser based systems and cannot be made to do so. The result will be documents that are generated by non-technical users using Blueberry based systems that their parser accepts as XML 1.0 - but which are NOT exchangable with actual XML 1.0 based systems. This is a _Bad Thing (tm)_. -- Benjamin Franz Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. ---Abelson and Sussman ------------------------------------------------------------------ The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@lists.xml.org ----- End of forwarded message from Benjamin Franz ----- -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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