Le 25 déc. 2007 à 02:16, James Graham a écrit :
I don't believe it can; the fatal-exception-on-wellformedness-error behavior is likely to be unacceptable to any website that values its uptime.


This is the current common agreement of people though the XML specification, 3rd edition, says:

        fatal error

        [Definition: An error which a conforming XML processor
        MUST detect and report to the application. After
        encountering a fatal error, the processor MAY continue
        processing the data to search for further errors and
        MAY report such errors to the application. In order
        to support correction of errors, the processor MAY make
        unprocessed data from the document (with intermingled
        character data and markup) available to the application.
        Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor
        MUST NOT continue normal processing (i.e., it MUST NOT
        continue to pass character data and information about
        the document's logical structure to the application in
        the normal way).]


If we make a distinction between XML Processor and Application (for example, browser)

One possible interpretation (my own that will get me burned by XML advocates.)


A non well-formed document is sent to an application with an XML processor.

1. The XML processor detects that the document is not well-formed and report it to the application. 2. The XML processor continue the processing of data and report data and errors to the application. 3. The XML processor has given back a stream with identified broken information to the application 4. The application applies an XML recovery mechanism on the stream sent by the XML processor and do what it wants with it such as displaying the document if necessary.




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Karl Dubost - W3C
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