RE: [www-vrml] X3D and the Draconian Parse Rule

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>]

Thanks Alan.  Given all the noise in the RSS/Atom world 
about trying to "best render" in the face of syntax errors, that 
is good to know.

"When in doubt, lay out." as they say among musicians.

len


From: Alan Hudson [mailto:giles@yumetech.com]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> Given that X3D has multiple encodings, that one 
> is XML and that XML parse rules are not prescribed 
> by X3D but by XML 1.n, what should a browser do if 
> the file it is processing isn't well-formed?
>
It should stop.  Same thing if it encountered a VRML Classic encoding 
file which was missing a final } or other parsing error.  Browsers which 
try to carry on are not doing the community a service as content will 
play very differently across browsers.
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