Re: XML errors and fatal errors.

John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:05:13 -0400

Richard Tobin wrote:
>
> > I find also the following 20 kinds of non-fatal errors:
>
> Many of these are violations of the grammar, hence making the document
> not well-formed (because it doesn't match the production "document").

Yeah, it's ugly. The claim that a document is WF if it conforms
to the production "document" appears in clause 2.1 and is repeated
in clause 4.3.2, but is not as such a WFC, and clause 1.2 claims
only that violations of WFCs are said to be errors. So technically a
document like

<foo

though not WF, is not "in error", since neither "error" nor "must"
is anywhere applied to what is wrong with it.

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