RE: DOM Level 3 LS test results

> This should result in an fatal error being reported to the error 
> handler.  I've assumed that any fatal error during a parse 
> would result 
> in a null return value, there is no provision for throwing a checked 
> exception (such as an io exception) and returning a partial document 
> would break XML's requirement that you can't ignore fatal errors.  
> However, the spec should be more explicit on the return value and/or 
> exceptions expected during parsing failures.  I'll try to 
> flesh out more 
> failure tests and then raise the issue to the WG.  Oracle throws a 
> INVALID_STATE_ERR though it isn't a scenarion described in the 
> exceptions list, Xerces-J throws a NullPointerException.

I already raised this issue more or less at the end of
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2003OctDec/0057.html
There should be an exception as far as I'm concerned, not a null return
value. Not just for empty inputs but also for incorrect documents,
missing files etc.

Kind regards,

--Sander.