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Re: Bad News on IE6 XML Support
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:37:28 -0400
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:20:33PM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
> >The XML spec has nothing to say about what the correct behavior of a
> >browser is
>
> It says that after a fatal error the processor (=parser) must not
> continue to pass data to the application in the normal way. The
> point of this is to ensure that applications - of which browsers
> are a canonical example - do not accept not-well-formed documents
> without at least making this clear to the user.
Richard is of course 100% right. There is absolutely no ambiguity
in that part of the XML Recommendation, and the point that a fatal-error
means to stop further normal processing and raise the error at the application
level:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#dt-fatal
Violating this is a clear non-conformance issue. The spec *does* indicate
what is the correct behaviour.
Daniel
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