From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-14T11:50:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25143] Re: XML support in the standard lib;whatexactly?

>
> Parsers don't *have* to be validating (though I certainly will not argue
> that they should be). If time to availability is an issue, and I really
> think it is with a Ruby XML parser, then validating later is OK by me. As I
> said several times before today, this is my biased opinion based on what I
> need to do (this is a real requirement, at least, though it may only be one
> user :-)

Exactly.  The spec describes the concept of validation.  A parser can skip this part, and simply check for well-formedness, but many
people like the idea of validating a document.

A non-validating parser would be a good start, and adding validation on top of it could be done later.

James

>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>