Re: [xml] Handling minor errors in XML and continuing

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 04:05, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> You are pretty much doomed. Daniel's approach (and I fully support this)
> has always been that libxml only handles well-formed input. If it is not
> well-formed, it is not XML and so you want libnotxml or something
> similar to handle your data.

The XML Specification also requires parsing to stop on well-formedness
errors; when we were designing XML we wanted to avoid the problem with
HTML whereby parsers have to try and guess what the author meant all
the time.

There are a few applications (an editor is the primary example) where
this is inappropriate, but they really are very few.

Liam


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