Re: revised description of RELAXED feature

Stefan Haustein wrote:

>Alek,
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>I think we actually need two properties or some kind of leveling:
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>0: parser strictly rejects malformed XML
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DOCDECL=true && RELAXED_CHECKING=false && RELAXED=false

>1: parser accepts well-formed XML, but also may accept some malformed 
>XML (some well-formedness checks are not implemented)
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RELAXED_CHECKING=true
http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#relaxed-checking

>2: parser tries to make its best effort to read anything. This is needed 
>for real-world HTML parsing or the implementation of tools similar to 
>HTML-Tidy.
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BEST_EFFORT=true (i think it isbetter name than RELAXED ...)
http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#best-effort

>kXML can operate in modes 1 and 2.
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hopefully it should allow to keep kXML2 size small too.

alek

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>Aleksander Slominski wrote:
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>>hi,
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>>i took Stefan and Elliotte comments and tried to come up with the 
>>updated description for RELAXED feature.
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>>does it sound right or did i miss something?
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>>thanks,
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>>alek
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>><h3>
>><a name="relaxed"></a>Optional feature: RELAXED</h3>
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>><p>This feature is identified by
>><a href="http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#relaxed">
>>http://xmlpull.org/v1/doc/features.html#relaxed</a> 
>></p>
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>><p>If this feature is supported that means that XmlPull parser will be lenient 
>>when checking XML well formedness. 
>>Even when this feature is enabled parser <b>MUST</b> 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 not well formed XML input. 
>>Note that it is different from invalid XML documents: when
>>VALIDATION feature is enabled RELAXED feature <b>MUST</b> be disabled.
>></p>
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>><p><b>NOTE</b>: use it only if XML input is not well-formed and the usage 
>>of this feature is <b>discouraged</b> </p>
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>><p><b>NOTE</b>: as there is no definition of what exactly is accepted as 
>>without checks when relaxed XML parsing is enabled therefore what parser will do 
>>completely depends on an implementation. For example in kXML2 relaxed setting 
>>is used to parse subset of HTML including accepting SGML constructs
>>such as &lt;table border=1> etc.
>></p>
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>><p><b>NOTE</b>: This feature is intended be used in J2ME and
>>similar very small footprint devices (where each KB of 64KB counts!)
>>to help in producing very small footprint XML parsers 
>>(such as kXML2).
>></p>
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