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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >> - note that a parser might not invoke endDocument after reporting a >> fatal error (this produces the fewest incompatibilities) > > I'm a little uncomfortable with this "fix". I think always calling > endDocument is the right thing to do, and it should be required in the > spec. I don't think this would increase incompatibility in any > significant way. It would simply encourage vendors of non-conformant > parsers to bring their parsers into compliance, thereby increasing > compatibility. This would allow users to depend on this behavior for the > first time. Still, this change would make some existing major parsers that are currently conformant suddenly non-conformant, and I'm not comfortable doing that lightly, for what is mainly a bookkeeping and cleanup release. If all of the new properties and features are optional, I don't think that there's anything else in the list that would break existing parsers. > Letting it go either way is the real problem. Noted. What does everyone else think? All the best, David
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