"Henri Sivonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sep 1, 2006, at 16:40, Jim Ley wrote: > >> there is nothing in >> the XML spec which requires that a application shows a _user_ an error, >> rather than rendering something. > > The XML processor is required to stop normal processing and stop passing > data to the app in the usual way. It is pretty clear that the intent of > the spec is not to suppress errors silently. Rendering the document up to > the error is perfectly ok spec-wise. > > Are you suggesting that the XML processor continue processing and passing > bogus fixed-up data to the app but in an abnormal--yet silent--way?
No, I don't consider that at all appropriate for the XML Processor, I expect another part of the application to do that. Jim.
