xml-dev - re: Parser compliance

[Richard Lanyon <rgl@decisionsoft.com>]

On 16 Nov 1999, David Megginson wrote:
> Sean Mc Grath <digitome@iol.ie> writes:

> > Does anyone knowledgeable in the minutia of XML compliance care to
> > list the extant parsers and put them into fully XML 1.0 compliant
> > and non-XML 1.0 compliant camps?

> Well, Expat is drop-dead, shoot-your-dog-if-it-ain't conformant...

Indeed, but it's not necessarily "fully-featured" in that it doesn't
include external entities and isn't validating, which is why we didn't
use it. One parser which does do these things is LT XML, but that isn't
very fussy about badly-formed XML (for a start, it doesn't reject
documents with more than one top-level element). So now we're onto
XML4C/Xerces.

Anyway, the point is that the issue of different XML document layouts for
different parsers is not merely one of conformance, but of the number of
optional features as well (something particularly telling in the light of
the cut-down XML debate currently continuing on this list).

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