A preprocessing service is not a bad work around; and I do have sympathy for the notion of standards of compliance. Still, I see this problem (control characters) often enough that I question the XML standard and Xerces' compliance to it. XML Spy does not, though Microsoft's DOM parser does. Is there any reason I can give my users other than that it is verboten? Is there some good reason for these characters to be off limits?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Roddey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Making Xerces less strict? > > Ditto the other answers. The whole point of a strict standard is that you > know that the documents you have (once they go through a compliant parser) > should go through any compliant parser. HTML turned into a race to the > bottom and this browser couldn't parse that page but the person creating > that page says, "But it works for me." XML cannot allow that because not > only is it for visual markup, where a failure to comply is a visual > annoyance, it's for semantic information and data, which will cause far > greater failures. It would make the world a very muddled, confused place, > where evil doers can create confusion and despair. > > ------------------------------------- > Dean Roddey > The Charmed Quark Controller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.charmedquark.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Seldin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Making Xerces less strict? > > > While in theory it makes good sense to have a strict parser, in the world > of > my clients getting them to make generally well formed documents is > difficult > enough. I've been getting a number of complaints about the "invalid > character" error; usually they've included some control character, like an > ASCII 18. (http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/faq-parse.html#faq-20) > > Is there any way to make the xerces parser less strict? If not, I'd like > to > put in a feature request for this. It would really make the world a > happier, > shinier place. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
