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Patrick TJ McPhee (ptjm@i...) wrote:
: In article <_sqdne8dXo63cqncRVn-hw@g...>,
: jmm-list-gn <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@s...> wrote:
: % Esther wrote:
: % > I've just been handed a spec prepared by one of our vendors that
: % > includes instructions and samples like these:
: % >
: % > "<difficulty_section> Tag
: % >
: % > I wasn't aware this was possible, especially since nesting is allowed
: % > in their model. Could someone please clarify for me if I'm missing one
: % > of the finer points of XML, or are these people just idiots?
: % >
: % It certainly not valid XML. It is not even well-formed. This does not
: % mean a parser cannot parse the document; only that the document is poorly
: % created.
: Conforming XML parsers are required to stop passing parsing information
: to the application when they encounter well-formedness errors.
The problem is not a well-formedness error though, so a SAX parser could
parse past the tags, the error would not occur until later when the
balancing didn't work.
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