[ 06 Jan 03 05:40, andrew clarke wrote to Jan Vermeulen ]

 ac> I don't know if any do validation though, or how the validation
 ac> process (ie. syntax-checking the XML) actually works in reality.
 ac> Scott?

"Legal" XML simply means that all tags are properly terminated,
etc. and most good XML libraries support DTDs and/or Schemas which check
the structure and data for compliance with user defined (ie. FTSC or *C
issued) specs.  Any segment processor that is capable of rejecting bad
incoming segments will be able to manually check local segments after
modification and before getting sent upsteam.

Given the availability of XML libraries, it probably won't be too out of
the question for a dedicated XML Nodelist editor to be written somewhere
along the line, rather than rely on generic XML editors.


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