Re: [dev-servo] (Lack of) XML parser

2014-10-14 Thread Matt Brubeck
On 10/13/2014 09:26 PM, Simon Sapin wrote: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Meeting-2014-10-13 kmc: [...] I was just reading about XML5 which uses an HTML parsing algorithm; possibly we could use for XML that instead of wiring up a proper XML parser. There are two different things. I sho

Re: [dev-servo] (Lack of) XML parser

2014-10-14 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 10/14/14, 12:26 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: Is there anything other than SVG that might require an XML parser XMLHttpRequest and DOMParser, no? but it sounds unlikely that real content relies on an entire document failing to parse. XMLHttpRequest not only relies on it, but relies on the exact

Re: [dev-servo] (Lack of) XML parser (was: Meeting notes 10/13)

2014-10-13 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2014-10-14 05:26 +0100, Simon Sapin wrote: > >zwarich: On the web, is validity-checking for XML input required? > > I don’t have evidence either way (and the only way to find out might > be to try it), but it sounds unlikely that real content relies on an > entire document failing to pa