From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-23T00:55:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26147] Re: Conformance Test of XML Parsers in Ruby(20011122)

Kevin Smith wrote:


> I totally disagree. There are plenty of cases where the
> same app is responsible for both writing and reading all
> the XML.


That's the point; in all other cases, a non-conformant implementation is 
useless.

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.


Many people use a very simple subset of XML. This fact doesn't help 
those who use XML.


> A pure Ruby interface seems
> perfectly acceptable to me, 


To me too.

Tobi



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