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Re: We need SAX features to say a parser supports XML

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: We need SAX features to say a parser supports XML
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:46:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p04330104b9df05eb47cc@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Oct 25, 2002 10:36:01 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Sorry. This can't be done in an erratum. XML 1.0 says what it says. 
> Parsers are designed around it. If you're going to change the BNF 
> grammar, then you've invented a new language. XML 1.0 plus errata is 
> no longer XML 1.0. It is provably true that
> 
> <?xml version="1.1"?><root />
> 
> is a well-formed XML 1.0 document.

Like it or not, XML 1.0, like all W3C recommendations, is a living document.

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