Week 5 Reflection: Valid Structure Is Not Truth

Pick one malformed message from the week.

Explain in 5–8 sentences:

• which stage should reject it;
• why parsing and validation are different;
• what the receiver should record;
• what it should avoid exposing;
• what a successful schema check would prove; and
• what it still could not prove about the real-world value.

End with one sentence beginning: “Accepted by the schema does not mean…”