All the minimalists in the house say "Yo!" All the maximalists say "Well, it really depends on a number of complex and mutually antagonistic factors...."
Opinions are like closing angle brackets: everyone's got one, but some stick out more than others, depending on your kerning
Via Sean McGrath comes a reasonably lucid and comprehensible redux of the argument about of whether or not the XML standard should (or should have) stipulated draconian error handling.