On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:57 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

That's a bit misleading, a fatal error just means that the XML
processor must report the error to the application and that the
processor is not required by the XML specification to continue
processing; doing so is however an optional feature...


No.  See, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-terminology, under "fatal
error". -Tim


Yes, exactly what I wrote...

No. The specification clearly *forbids* proceeding with normal processing. If you get a busted element in a feed, you'd better close that connection and open another one. -Tim

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