Re: [xml-dev] Please stop writing specifications that cannot beparsed/pr

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

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> I wrote the first complete and AFAIK fully conforming XML parser, Lark, in Nov/Dec 1996 (Yeah, XML wasn’t quite finished yet) and it took several weeks, which annoyed me because I really had thought we’d managed to narrow it down enough to make it a one-week task.


Is that with or without DTD validation?

I'd rate it at two days without DTD validation, 2 months with; and that's assuming you start with a decent test suite.

Michael Kay
Saxonica