Well-formed vs. valid

[Simon St.Laurent]

At 10:51 AM 2/25/99 -0700, roddey at us.ibm.com wrote:
>FYI, our (IBM's) new version 2 architecture parsers do this. We have a
>pluggable architecture, and one of the plug ins is a validator. The low
>level scanner uses this to validate content before it sends it out through
>the internal even APIs. So, if you are wiring together a SAX style parser,
>you just wire the internal events to the SAX events and you have a
>validating SAX parser (actually we have that combination already provided
>for you as a canned parser, but you can do other variations as well.)

Big question: can I plug someone else's SAX parser into your scanner, and
then have your validation component work on my SAX events?  While it's
unlikely that I'd want to plug a different SAX parser in, it's quite
possible that I'd want to work with the SAX events (transforming with XT,
for instance) before performing validation.

Simon St.Laurent
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