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Re: If an XML parser is requested to parse an XML document

• From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@mentea.net>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:14:41 -0000 (GMT)

On Fri, February 15, 2013 12:24 pm, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
...
>     If an XML parser is requested to parse
>     an XML document and no application
>     is around to process its output, does it
>     really parse the XML document?

If there is no application, how can the parser have been requested to
parse a document?

How can you know it is an XML document if it isn't parsed, since "A data
object is an XML document if it is well-formed, as defined in this
specification." [1]

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-xml-doc

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  • If an XML parser is requested to parse an XML document and noapplication is around to process its output, does it really parse the XMLdocument?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>