XML errors and fatal errors.

[John Cowan]

Tim Bray wrote:

> Well, the spec is not perfect, but it makes it pretty clear that the
> above, while you may wish to apply the English word "document" to it,
> is not, in the terms of the spec, an "XML Document", and that a
> conforming XML Processor would emit some serious complaints when fed
> this particular character sequence. -T.

Of course.  A simple fix would be to add a sentence to clause 2.1,
somewhat as follows:  "It is a fatal error for a document not to
match the production _document_."

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
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