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Re: Fast text output from SAX?

• To: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
• Subject: Re: Fast text output from SAX?
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:17:35 -0400
• Cc: XML DEV <xml-dev@l...>
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At 12:46 AM -0400 4/15/04, Stephen D. Williams wrote:


>I could just as easily argue that every application has to perform 
>schema validation, and then at a further level a complete 
>application-level sanity validation (since DTD/Schema only goes so 
>far), then referential integrity to database tables, etc.  Certainly 
>very paranoid applications processing potentially unfriendly data 
>need to do these levels, but it is not required of many other 
>applications.

You're mixing apples and oranges. Schema validation (even DTD 
validation) is explicitly optional in XML. Furthermore you can 
process an invalid document. That is definitely not true of a 
malformed document. Failing to check well-formedness is not an option.


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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
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