Re: [xml-dev] Partial documents in tree-based APIs

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2003-04-06T15:41:30Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Partial documents in tree-based APIs
 (John Cowan) writes:
>Thanks for the plug, but TagSoup is actually about never reporting any
>errors, well-formedness or otherwise.  It is an anti-draconian
>(georgian?) error detector; the only errors it reports are
>IOExceptions.

Sure thing - I just meant that the code base might be a good place to
start.  You're intent on fixing errors, but another programmer might
well want to use similar logic to report them.

>And it does indeed require knowledge of the vocabulary; the default
>vocabulary is HTML.

I suspect this kind of knowledge is necessary for useful error-reporting
about nesting issues.

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