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From Rick Jelliffe: >No, they chose to penalize everyone else's XML systems. If that IE >parser accepts something and Oracle's correctly finds the error, >are the punters supposed to know that MS messed up and Oracle is correct? From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...> > Should notepad.exe also alert users to anything that might fail in >Oracle or MSXML3? When someone loads the invalid file in MSXML3, it >bombs -- does the user say "Notepad let me parse that file! Who is >right, Microsoft or Microsoft?!?" Whoever tells the user/agent "there is a problem" is right, even if it is Oracle or Sun or IBM or Apache or one of the free tools. An editor is a tool for correcting mistakes; a browser does not provide any mechanism for correction, so the correct action of a browser (and a parser, in its default mode) is to reject the file. I have no objection to parsers having funny modes to allow repair tools to be created. But it is hard to know what the appropriate repair should be if an ENQ is plonked in the middle of a file: stripping it? No, better to fail and make the creator's problem, not the recipient's. If MS wants a different behaviour, have they raised this and argued it through the W3C process? There might be other people who agree that we should refactor the various errors in XML into something other than "well-formed" and "valid". It is certainly an issue that involves trade-offs; but not unilateral acceptance of illegal XML documents w Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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