Re: XML syntax (was Re: external subset syntax)
Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 16:35:45 GMT
> No, it's not SGML's fault, at least not this time. Conforming SGML
> parsers are allowed to continue processing if they want to, and are
> even allowed not to report errors at all (as long as they don't claim
> to be "validating parsers"). XML has gone way beyond any SGML
> requirements with this one.
Always remember that your software doesn't have to be a conforming
XML processor unless you want it to be. There are several applications
where you certainly *don't* want to be a conforming processor, such as
an XML editor.
-- Richard