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Greg Colyer wrote:
> if there's at least one closing tag at the end
> <trade>
> <ticker>IBM</ticker>
> <amount>100</amount>
>then we don't have the main problem, even though w-f
> is still violated.
You may not have problems with the <amount> element, however,
you still don't know if corruption has prevented transfer of data that
might have followed the <amount> tag and might be significant for the
consuming application. For instance, let us say that the schema for
the <trade> element says that it may have a child <exchange> which
defaults to "NYSE". If there is no closing </trade> tag, you don't
know if the value for <exchange> should be <NYSE> or some other value.
Thus, there is still significant ambiguity here...
bob wyman
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