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Sean Mc Grath <digitome@i...> writes: > Does anyone knowledgeable in the minutia of XML compliance care to > list the extant parsers and put them into fully XML 1.0 compliant > and non-XML 1.0 compliant camps? Well, Expat is drop-dead, shoot-your-dog-if-it-ain't conformant, which means that pretty much every XML implementation in Perl, C, and C++ (including Mozilla) is conformant (along with many in Python). As far as I've seen, XT is conformant as well. I trust that Lark is conformant, or Tim wouldn't have put his neck on the block by asking the question in the first place. Likewise, David Brownell is pretty fierce about conformance, so I imagine that Sun's XML library (which he wrote before he left Sun) is pretty much on the money. I haven't looked in detail at Matt's latest AElfred versions, but when I wrote it AElfred wass non-conformant only in its error reporting -- it will never (to my knowledge) reject a well-formed document, but under certain circumstances, it may accept a documents that are not well-formed. Microsoft's parsers -- both Java and C++, embedded and stand-alone -- have never, to my knowledge, been fully conformant, though many of the problems are relatively obscure (for example, they all reject text declarations without a 'version' pseudo-attribute). IBM's implementations (XML4J and XML4C++) are so big that I haven't really taken the time to check in detail. I also haven't had a chance to test Oracle's yet. How's that for a start? I know that OASIS has been working on a general conformance test suite -- it might also be nice if XML Dev'ers put some of their energy into a SAX conformance test suite. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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