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At 2:07 PM -0500 2/27/04, Karl Waclawek wrote: >Since there is no strong and explicit assertion in the SAX docs >that EndDocument *must* always be called, this would indicate to me >that in fact there is no such assertion at all, as this looks >like a proof to the contrary. Taking this argument to extremes, is it acceptable for a parser not to call startDocument? Just to call fatalError? I have caught parsers doing this, especially when the error is very early in the document; e.g. in the byte order mark or the XML declaration. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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