10.7. The ErrorHandler Interface
The ErrorHandler interface gives SAX application developers control over what happens when parsing errors are encountered. The XML 1.0 recommendation differentiates between two types of errors:
error— This is a violation of the rules of the XML 1.0 specification. Conforming software is allowed to both detect and attempt to recover from this type of error, but it must report the error to the application. For example, it is an error for an element to have two attributes of type ID.
fatal error— This is an error that conforming software must detect and report to the application. After a fatal error, a parser is allowed to continue processing in order to detect more errors, but it must not continue to parse the XML. ...
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