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Re: Strict-Mode and Lax-Mode MicroXML

• From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
• To: Pete Cordell <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
• Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:52:05 -0400

Pete Cordell scripsit:

> Note that this wouldn't be Postel lax processing because the laxness
> wouldn't be left up to the parser implementers to define.  

Exactly.  Such modes just make the parser bigger and the spec bigger.
Furthermore, they're useless for documents that aren't hand-authored.
I see no point in them.

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  • Strict-Mode and Lax-Mode MicroXML
    • From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>