Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Thu Aug 12 14:44:17 2004

It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated:
>
> Certainly nothing too complex though; error handling of the XML format's
> probably the bit that takes most of the effort (coping with malformed
> data without crashing the parser or eating up memory etc.)

  Actually, that's the easy part---it is mandated by the XML spec that any
malformed XML will cause the XML parser to report the error to the user, and
*stop immediately* and do no further processing. It's then up to the user
to correct the XML file and start again.

  -spc (See? Easy error handling 8-P
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 14:44:17 BST