Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated:
> 
> Certainly nothing too complex though; error handling of the XML format's
> probably the bit that takes most of the effort (coping with malformed
> data without crashing the parser or eating up memory etc.)

  Actually, that's the easy part---it is mandated by the XML spec that any
malformed XML will cause the XML parser to report the error to the user, and
*stop immediately* and do no further processing.  It's then up to the user
to correct the XML file and start again.

  -spc (See?  Easy error handling 8-P