On 2/1/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > To preempt your question about "how do you tell a broken datafile from > > one with simply new tags?", I say: "you don't". You let XML > > well-formed-ness deal with really corrupted datafiles, and you ignore > > any tags or attributes that you don't recognize. If you then ignore > > valid future data, fine; if you ignore invalid/broken data, fine. The > > utility of reading a wider set of datafiles is higher than the risk of > > reading inconsistent data, with some amount of care taken in the future. > > I still maintain that loading-and-ignoring is WORSE than failing-to-load. > When you load-and-ignore, then when you save you've now LOST data, and > worse, you've lost it silently! I think that's worse than just failing to > load the datafile. > > As a lurking user, I'd like to say that data should not be lost silently. At worst, display a message so that the user can abort the load.
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