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Re: SAX/Java Proposed Changes

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• Subject: Re: SAX/Java Proposed Changes
• From: David Megginson <dmeggin@a...>
• Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 12:49:29 -0500
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

>> - note that a parser might not invoke endDocument after reporting a 
>> fatal error (this produces the fewest incompatibilities)
> 
> I'm a little uncomfortable with this "fix". I think always calling 
> endDocument is the right thing to do, and it should be required in the 
> spec. I don't think this would increase incompatibility in any 
> significant way. It would simply encourage vendors of non-conformant 
> parsers to bring their parsers into compliance, thereby increasing 
> compatibility. This would allow users to depend on this behavior for the
>  first time.

Still, this change would make some existing major parsers that are currently
conformant suddenly non-conformant, and I'm not comfortable doing that
lightly, for what is mainly a bookkeeping and cleanup release.  If all of
the new properties and features are optional, I don't think that there's
anything else in the list that would break existing parsers.

> Letting it go either way is the real problem.

Noted.  What does everyone else think?


All the best,


David

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