From: Kevin Smith <kevinbsmith@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T00:48:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26145] Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122)

--- David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net
> > > 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.

I totally disagree. There are plenty of cases where the
same app is responsible for both writing and reading all
the XML. In many cases the XML is so simple that it would
hard for it to break any parser. In fact, the few times
that I have used XML so far have been in exactly those
conditions.

I do reluctantly agree that a parser should be 100%
conforming before becoming part of the Ruby standard
library itself.

I disagree that it must be DOM and SAX compliant (whatever
the latter might mean). A pure Ruby interface seems
perfectly acceptable to me, at least as a starting point.
Presumably the compatibility layers could be added later.

Kevin


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