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?

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Andrew Welch <>
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"Costello, Roger L." <>
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2013-02-15T12:55:24Z
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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?
> Perhaps the XML parser is a lazy parser and refuses to do anything until prodded by an XML application. So if there is no XML application, there is no parsing.
>
> Thoughts?
>

As conspiracy theories go, it's not a bad one.



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