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Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again

• To: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Subject: Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:45:07 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>, <sax-devel@l...>
• In-reply-to: <001101c3fd64$eab0ad30$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k>
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At 2:07 PM -0500 2/27/04, Karl Waclawek wrote:

>Since there is no strong and explicit assertion in the SAX docs
>that EndDocument *must* always be called, this would indicate to me
>that in fact there is no such assertion at all, as this looks
>like a proof to the contrary.


Taking this argument to extremes, is it acceptable for a parser not 
to call startDocument? Just to call fatalError? I have caught parsers 
doing this, especially when the error is very early in the document; 
e.g. in the byte order mark or the XML declaration.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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