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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>> - note that a parser might not invoke endDocument after reporting a
>> fatal error (this produces the fewest incompatibilities)
>
> I'm a little uncomfortable with this "fix". I think always calling
> endDocument is the right thing to do, and it should be required in the
> spec. I don't think this would increase incompatibility in any
> significant way. It would simply encourage vendors of non-conformant
> parsers to bring their parsers into compliance, thereby increasing
> compatibility. This would allow users to depend on this behavior for the
> first time.
Still, this change would make some existing major parsers that are currently
conformant suddenly non-conformant, and I'm not comfortable doing that
lightly, for what is mainly a bookkeeping and cleanup release. If all of
the new properties and features are optional, I don't think that there's
anything else in the list that would break existing parsers.
> Letting it go either way is the real problem.
Noted. What does everyone else think?
All the best,
David
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