- From: Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:27:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: Daniel Barclay <Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com>
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
If you have a tightly integrated group of programmers you have power to enforce standards, but in a group as varied as "all internet programmers using XML" it is wise to expect a wide range of input quality. In the context of a complex document made up of fragments from different parties, it makes sense to validate the fragments separately. - Lucas Gonze On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote: > > > ... > > I think there is a good case to be made for deferred validation... > > and with the internet, the general rule is "be strict in what you > > generate, liberal in what you accept" anyway. > > That rule was for human-readable pages. > > I wouldn't expect it to apply to many XML applications, which don't have > the same level of error recovery capabilities. > > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Barclay > Digital Focus > Daniel.Barclay@digitalfocus.com > >
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