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Re: [office] Rules for handling parsing errors (was: proposalfor ODF 1.2: extension of verticalrelationvaluesfor certainanchor types)

  • 1.  Re: [office] Rules for handling parsing errors (was: proposalfor ODF 1.2: extension of verticalrelationvaluesfor certainanchor types)

    Posted 07-05-2008 08:22 
    Hi Dave,

that so true!

So to prevent this kind of browser wars its very important to have clear guidelines what to do, IMHO.

~Florian


>>> "Dave Pawson"


  • 2.  Re: [office] Rules for handling parsing errors (was: proposal for ODF 1.2: extensionof verticalrelationvaluesfor certain anchor types)

    Posted 07-07-2008 01:54 

    On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Reuter wrote:

    
> Options:
    
> a) Treat it as if the attribute was not there
    
> b) Try to preserve the value
    
> c) Treat is as if the attribute was there but overwrite the invalid
value with a "default" value
    

    d) Raise an error
    e) Behavior is undefined
    f) Behavior is application-defined

    Today, an invalid attribute value makes the XML instance
invalid, and documents with invalid XML instances are not conformant.  The
ODF standard does not place any requirements on non-conforming documents.
 So, I think e) is what the state of things is today.  

    A robust application would probably do a) or c) (which
I think are the same for reading, though may differ when the document is
re-written).

    If there was sufficient interest in defining requirements
for a "robust ODF parser", then that is certainly something that
could be defined in the standard, and conformance requirements associated
with a "robust ODF parser".  But for it to be meaningful
I think you would want to take a comprehensive view of the problem, not
just unknown attributes.

    -Rob



     


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