Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:03:27 -0400
At 2:04 PM -0800 11/20/01, Mark Alldritt wrote:
I understand that leading whitespace is not permitted in the XML spec, but
I've had a couple of folks who have XML files that for one reason or another
contain leading white space and need to parse them.
Damn it, No! These folks need to fix their documents. XML is
deliberately draconian about error handling. This is a feature, not a
bug. It ensures interoperability between different tools. You're
encouraging the development of a class of incompatible documents that
will break when passed to different parsers.
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