From: David Alan Black Date: 2001-11-22T22:14:07+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:26134] Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122) Hello -- On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Tobias Reif wrote: > TAKAHASHI Masayoshi wrote: > > > I don't think 99% conformant parser is useless because it's just not 100%, It's pretty close to useless... at least it won't be taken seriously by people who don't want to have to worry about the 1%, possibly. > > but I think all valid documents should be parsed without raising > > error (is it reasonable criterion?). > > > I don't think so. Parsers can do a lot of wrong things with well-formed > documents without raising an arror. > > ... and all well-formedness errors must cause an error report. But if a document is valid, then it's also well-formed, so it does make sense that the parser would not raise an error. David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav