Re: [xml-dev] Which is more declarative? More XMLish?

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Rick Jelliffe <>
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"Liam R. E. Quin" <>,
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Re: [xml-dev] Which is more declarative? More XMLish?
I think you can validate a streaming document. Start with the proposition that a document is wellformed and valid until you find something that disproves it. 

That does not affect Dmitri's point about transactions, of course.
Rick



> Note: even XML well-formedness cannot be validated when streaming a
> document. This means that any serious XML streaming must be performed
> in transactional manner.

Right, and you have to handle a truncated document gracefully in many
situations too.

Liam

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