The case in point is DIH. DIH uses the standard DOM parser that comes w/ JDK. If it reads the xml properly do we need to complain?. I guess that data-config.xml may not be used for any other purposes.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/08 8:57 AM, "Steven A Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Telling people that it's not a problem (or required!) to write >> non-well-formed >> XML, because a particular XML parser can't accept well-formed XML is kind of >> insidious. > > I'm with you all the way on this. > > A parser which accepts non-well-formed XML is not an XML parser, since the > XML spec requires reporting a fatal error. > > It is really easy to test these things. Modern browsers have good XML > parsers, so put your test case in a "test.xml" file and open it in a > browser. If it isn't well-formed, you'll get an error. > > Here is my test XML: > > <root attribute="<"/> > > Here is what Firefox 3.0.3 says about that: > > XML Parsing Error: not well-formed > Location: file:///Users/wunderwood/Desktop/test.xml > Line Number 1, Column 18: > > <root attribute="<"/> > -----------------^ > > wunder > > -- --Noble Paul
