From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T23:46:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25266] Re: ANN: REXML 1.1a3

James Britt (rubydev) wrote:


> REXML does not behave like a standard XML parser.

[...]

> It is the "REXML Way", so to speak.


Any XML parser (and document) has to conform to the XML spec, otherwise 
*it is not an XML implementation* (or document).

(the escaping of strings that are arguments to attribute methods seems 
to be OK; not so if any XML input is not well-formed.)

There are many data formats, and many ways to process them.

If it's called XML, it has to adhere to the XML spec. Otherwise, it can 
not be called XML.

Until now, everyone agreed on this.

Anyone can chose to not conform to anything.

Choosing to implement or write XML means to conform to the XML spec. 
This is the idea of XML.

Tobi

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