A 'sanity check' seems clearly to be in order here.

 

I hear the industry way to solve spec interpretation

problems (re conformance) is to use test assertions,

whether it be XML, C, C# or java. What would be

test assertions for those spec statements I just

highlighted as possible culprits? Maybe producing

these will help clarify the spec.

 

"In order to
support correction of errors, the processor MAY make unprocessed data
from the document (with intermingled character data and markup)
available to the application."

 

"Once a fatal error is detected, however,
the processor MUST NOT continue normal processing (i.e., it MUST NOT
continue to pass character data and information about the document's
logical structure to the application in the normal way)."

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Stephen D Green