• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: XML-appropriate editing data structures
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:39:43 -0400
• Cc: "'mayfair@t...'" <mayfair@t...>,xml-dev@l...,Henrik Martensson <henrik.martensson@b...>
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At 3:58 PM -0500 4/9/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Yep.  If a system lets a repair technician skip
>a warning or a writer inserts a caution instead
>of a warning, the repair technician can die.


Which has nothing to do with what we're discussing here. No software 
system I've seen is smart enough to tell whether a particular problem 
should be a caution or a warning in the face of a person mislabelling 
the content. A DTD cannot tell if a writer has used a caution where a 
warning is appropriate or vice versa. Similarly, a validator cannot 
determine if a warning has been omitted where one is called for. It 
can tell that a warning element is not present, but it has no way to 
know that there should have been a warning in the first place.

-- 

   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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