http://www.semiologic.com/2005/05/11/the-dark-side-of-xml/ Meaningful Technology Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.semiologic.com/2005/05/11/the-dark-side-of-xml/#comment-412 Denis de Bernardy Wed, 11 May 2005 11:01:42 +0000 http://www.semiologic.com/?p=258#comment-412 Sure, standards make the life of programmers easier. I just think it shouldn't say in the specs that error correction should never occur. Obviously, you cannot catch all errors. But `&` and html entity problems, for instance... They're so common. The user is suffering in the end. Sure, standards make the life of programmers easier. I just think it shouldn't say in the specs that error correction should never occur. Obviously, you cannot catch all errors. But `&` and html entity problems, for instance… They're so common. The user is suffering in the end.

]]> http://www.semiologic.com/2005/05/11/the-dark-side-of-xml/#comment-411 Tinus Wed, 11 May 2005 07:01:54 +0000 http://www.semiologic.com/?p=258#comment-411 There must be thousands of potential errors. How are you going to correct them all? And if you manage to do that, how about the rest of the world? Standards make life more easy! There must be thousands of potential errors. How are you going to correct them all? And if you manage to do that, how about the rest of the world? Standards make life more easy!

]]> http://www.semiologic.com/2005/05/11/the-dark-side-of-xml/#comment-410 Elliott Bäck Wed, 11 May 2005 02:26:26 +0000 http://www.semiologic.com/?p=258#comment-410 Parsing with error recovery is very very hard, although it's probably much easier with XML than with a programming language. For a modern example, the IE parser will handle nearly everything you throw at it, but Firefox is much less lenient. And I'm not talking about html here... i'm talking about complete garbage... Parsing with error recovery is very very hard, although it's probably much easier with XML than with a programming language. For a modern example, the IE parser will handle nearly everything you throw at it, but Firefox is much less lenient. And I'm not talking about html here… i'm talking about complete garbage…

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