Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:56:04 -0500
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 18:03:27 -0400
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From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: XML Tools 2.3.2
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At 2:04 PM -0800 11/20/01, Mark Alldritt wrote:
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> I understand that leading whitespace is not permitted in the XML spec, but
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> I've had a couple of folks who have XML files that for one reason or another
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> contain leading white space and need to parse them.
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Damn it, No!
Wow.
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... These folks need to fix their documents. XML is
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deliberately draconian about error handling. This is a feature, not a
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bug. It ensures interoperability between different tools. You're
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encouraging the development of a class of incompatible documents that
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will break when passed to different parsers.
Which would be their fault, not Mark's.
Perhaps there could be an optional "strict" parameter of XML Tools,
that would allow a user to define the level of "loose" parsing?
It is a document's adherence to the standard itself that defines
interoperability, not the degree of "looseness" that a given parser
allows.
Arthur J. Knapp
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