[sword-devel] We need XML parser

[Victor Porton]

Well, you haven't answered the question, whether it is a need for Sword to 
consider equivalent XML equivalently or it can use only a subset of XML (e.g. 
with restricted attrs order).

> The order of attributes is not significant in XML, so your examples should 
> be equivalent.  Regardless things shouldn't ever crash even if it did get 
> unacceptable data, it should display or log or return an error message and 
> go on or quit, which ever makes sense for the situation.  If you want to 
> parse XML, best is to use an XML parser library... such as expat or xerxes 
> or some other one.
> 
> At 05:05 AM 6/6/2002 +0600, Victor Porton wrote:
> >Somebody said that XML format of modules is preferable.
> >
> >First a question arises: does this imply that two equivalent XML fragments
> >(e.g <a x="1" y="2"/> and <a y="2" x="1"/> are equivalent XML despite these
> >have different text representation) should be parsed by Sword 
> >equivalently? Is
> >variant when <a x="1" y="2"/> parses well, but on <a y="2" x="1"/> Sword
> >crashes acceptable (with obligation to use in modules only the first 
> >arguments
> >order)?
> >--
> >Victor Porton (porton@narod.ru)
> 
> 

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Victor Porton (porton@narod.ru)