<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Hildebrand</b> <<a href="mailto:hildjj@gmail.com">hildjj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Scott Cotton wrote:<br>> I'm still unclear on what "treat as if does not exist" means.<br>> First and foremost, I don't know whether ignoring is<br>> passing through untouched and uninterpreted or
<br>> removing it.<br><br>Another option, which resolves this ambiguity is to say that the<br>receiving entity MUST disconnect from the sending entity, the same as<br>if non-well-formed XML had been sent.</blockquote><div>
<br><br>I like this option, so long as the receiving entity also sends a descriptive error<br>message to the sending entity.<br>-- <br>scott<br><br>PS I am developing an xml parser in java which works on byte buffers instead
<br>of streams, but uses the java 1.6 / java EE javax.xml.stream XMLEvent <br>interface so that it can more easily interoperate with other xml tools. This<br>makes it easier to work with non-blocking io for a server, but also unfortunately seemed
<br>to require a dedicated xml parser. Minimizing the required work for that parser<br>is what originally triggered the question, but I'm more concerned about being<br>very clear with respect to what happens to message content.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br>Joe Hildebrand<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br><br>