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• Subject: Re: Partial documents in tree-based APIs
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:41:30 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20030406153654.GJ26938@c...>

cowan@m... (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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