Re: RELAXED CHEKING feature [Re: conformance testing....]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

>At 1:57 AM -0500 2/21/04, Aleksander Slominski wrote:
>
>  
>
>>"Even when this feature is enabled parser MUST accepts all valid XML
>>(the only exception is in case when PROCESS DOCDECL is disabled as in
>>this case DOCDECL is not parsed). This feature is intended to indicate
>>that the parser will make less effort to detect invalid XML documents.
>>This is good to produce small footprint XML parsers for J2ME such as kXML2".
>>
>>i was also thinking that to indicate intent of this feature (all _valid_
>>XML accepted but invalid may not be detected) we should change name to
>>"relaxed-checking"?
>>    
>>
>
>It's necessary to distinguish between validity and well-formedness. I 
>think in this case the parser makes *no* effort to detect invalid 
>documents. It may perhaps make some effort to detect malformed 
>documents. Please do not use the word "valid" as a catch-all for 
>"correct". In the context of XML, the word valid has a very specific 
>technical meaning.
>  
>
good point and i tried to make this clear in revised description.

thanks,

alek

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