Absolutely.
I hunted around the .Net framework hoping to find such
a parser which allowed me to repair the XML but I couldn't
find one. I suspect the makers want all their XML parsers
to be able to claim conformance and that this forces the
parser to be written such that it fails with invalid content,
etc. Maybe a repair kit parser would have to bear a risk
of being labelled 'non-conforming' and so there isn't one.
Thus the spec writers maybe have to carry some
responsibility for the lack of such tools and maybe are
best placed to fix it in the future.
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Stephen D Green
On 16 July 2011 18:03, Michael Kay
<mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
On 16/07/2011 17:09, Stephen D Green wrote:
It's a bane to developers that parsers regard errors in XML
as fatal which need not be fatal, IMO.
However, I don't see why people shouldn't attempt to write XML repair tools that repair ill-formed XML and turn it into well-formed XML - so long as it's accepted that such tools should only be used where there is a specific need to repair corrupt data, and not for routine XML parsing.
