Re: Two changes to ErrorHandler

David Megginson <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:54:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.sax.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Elliotte Harold wrote:

> The attached patch makes two changes to the ErrorHandler documentation:
> 
> 1. It clarifies that namespace well-formedness errors are fatal errors. 
> Crimson is not in conformanc with this, which has been a major problem 
> for many users. All other parsers written in Java seem to implement this 
> correctly.
> 
> 2. It clarifies that parsers MUST NOT continue reporting events in the 
> normal way following a fatal error. Previously the docs gave the 
> erroneous impression that this could be done at parser option. However, 
> doing so would be in direct violation of the XML specification.

Thanks.  I'm going to postpone applying these patches.  I personally am in 
full agreement with both, but they deserve more discussion than they can get 
this close to a release.


All the best,


David


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