XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <erharold AT gmail.com>]

John Cowan wrote:
> (Private response)
>
> > At first glance, this appears to be another incompatible change 
>
> Quite right, but you're cherry-picking.  Can you point to *any*
> substantive errata that *don't* constitute an incompatible change?

Errata should not be used for making substantive changes to the 
language. That's what a new version is for. Errata should be limited to 
clarifying language and fixing outright mistakes. Frankly as long as a 
"mistake" is unambiguous, non-contradictory to other parts of the spec, 
and implementable, I don't think an erratum should be used to fix that 
either.

> > Thus the system identifier is a URI, not merely a string that is 
> > converted to a URI. It is an error for a URI to contain an unescaped 
> > linefeed, and XOM should throw an exception in that case.
>
> You should document this as a major deviation from XML 1.0.  Or if you
> are implementing XML 1.0 2e, you should say so.

XML 1.0 is deviating from itself. I obviously overestimated the ability 
or will of the W3C to maintain a stable spec with a consistent version 
number. :-(

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