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

• To: "'Karl Waclawek'" <karl@w...>,"'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Re: [Sax-devel] SAX - endDocument() confusion again
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:52:25 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>,<sax-devel@l...>
• In-reply-to: <000b01c3fd89$29805910$0207a8c0@karl>
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# > 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.
# 
# I would say that at this point the document has started

So what constitutes a document "starting"? What happens if no resource with
the given System ID can be found? What happens if a resource can be found,
but it is zero-length? What happens if there is a timeout while trying to
fetch the resource?

Michael Kay

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