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At 12:59 PM 1/25/99 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >The real difference in this respect between HTML and XML is that >XML mandates draconian error processing (refusing to parse >un-well-formed documents), and that was put into the spec at >the demand of the major browser vendors, who were tired of playing >we-can-accept-more-bogus-HTML-than-you games. (Source of this >statement: hearsay.) I was there & it's true. Both the big boys asked for it. I think it would have been done anyhow, them asking was just reinforcement. Because it's a good idea in & of itself. -T. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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