Your posting seemed to have generated a lot of heat, but very little
light. I think a few folks commented on the original question, but it
was hard to filter out of the other discussion. My experience is
exactly yours: although the XML spec seems to leave open the possibility
of handling nonfatal errors, in practice most XML parsers simply reject
non-XML documents as soon as they encounter an error of any sort. I'm
not sure I can think of even a single example of a non-fatal error
generated by any real XML parser. Did I miss one in all the foregoing
comments?
-Mike
On 07/16/2011 11:47 AM, Joe Fawcett wrote:
> Dear List Members
>
> I'm writing a short introduction to XML and would like to have a good
> example of each of the above that doesn't require too much background
> knowledge. So far I've covered the basics of a well-formed document,
> creating elements and attributes. I've shied away from the intricacies
> of DTDs as they are covered in a separate article. Namespaces are also
> to be covered later so any examples would preferably be unrelated to
> either of these two areas.
>
> According to the XML specification a processor may recover from an
> error that's not described as fatal although in my experience most
> parsers don't try to do this, would I be wrong here? - and if so what
> would an example be for something like Saxon or one of the netter
> known parsers?
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
>
>
