Re: [xml-dev] 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?

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