• From: Rob Lugt <roblugt@e...>
• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:54:03 +0100

John Cowan wrote:
>
> "It is an error" means that 1) no XML document should do this, and 2) an
> XML processor may or may not detect or report it.  So the use of an
> ambiguous (non-deterministic) content model may cause any of the
> following behaviors:
>
> 1) it just works;
> 2) it just fails silently;
> 3) it just generates an error;
> 4) it just makes demons fly out of your nose.

Now, if we could only write a processor that had the behaviour of (4), that
would be real progress.

~Rob

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