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RE: A call for reason

• From: William Lindsey <lindsey@d...>
• To: Don Park <donpark@d...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:48:11 -0700 (MST)

 (regarding name characters)

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Don Park wrote:

> Net result is that SML data will be well-formed but invalid
> name error will not be reported.  Is this too much to ask?

Yes, it is too much to ask.

Your SML data may be well-formed by some idea you have of
the meaning of the term, but the XML spec has a different, 
more precise definition of "well-formed".   A 
conforming XML processor is required to reject a
document with illegal element names. That document
is, therefore, not XML.

"Close" isn't good enough.

Cheers,
Bill


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