Re: [xml-dev] nextml

[Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:13 +0000, Norman Gray wrote:
[...]
> ...and later, Liam Quinn wrote:

Actually it was me (Liam Quinn is someone else)

> > The most frequent change request I hear is to remove the strict syntax
> > requirements and make every XML implementation include some sort of
> > HTML-like expert system to do the parsing, automatically "correcting"
> > errors like missing quotes off attribute values.

Please note, I'm *not* advocating such a change, but rather saying that
it's the request I hear most often.

[...]
> If 'XML-bis' were defined using lexer events, with strings defined as
> sequences of unicode code points, then a JIS-encoded document with
> missing quotes could be (required to be) handled by the lexer,
> entirely transparently.  In other words, why is file/wire encoding
> anything to do with XML?
Because XML is about file interchange.

If your XML processor won't read my XML document, we've failed.

Liam

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