Re: [xml-dev] If an XML parser is requested to parse an XML documentand

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Re: [xml-dev] If an XML parser is requested to parse an XML documentand no application is around to process its output, does it really parsethe XML document?

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:10:49 +0000

 >We perceive that an XML document has been parsed because there is an 
XML application that invokes the fruits of the parse and does something 
with it (displays, computes, etc.)

More likely, you perceive that the parser is doing its job because if 
the XML document is ill-formed, the parser tells you about it.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

References:
- If an XML parser is requested to parse an XML document and noapplication is around to process its output, does it really parse the XMLdocument?
  - From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>

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