xml-dev - Re: An issue?: Parsers with XML Schema support & reporting errorsininval

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@geotempo.com> writes:

> Dylan Walsh wrote:
>   
> > Perhaps there is a need for a formal or ad hoc standard for this reporting,
> > e.g. an extension to SAX, that specifies subclasses of SAXParseException for
> > different schema errors. Or is this already being dealt with?
> 
> There is something else that needs to be checked.  
> 
> After processing a document using a schema, the information set is
> augmented
> by various items: type, etc.    Different processors can augment the
> infoset with different items, depending on what the application needs.
> 
> But there are three+ issues that need to be addressed AFAIK before there
> can
> be a SAX version of the PSVI (post-schema-validation infoset, doncha
> love it)
> 
>  *  how to represent error and validity conditions (as Dylan mentioned)

This one is now covered:  there is a PSVI property [schema error
codes] and a story on how to uniformly identify validity failures.

ht
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