Re: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions

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Re: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> >In fact any aggregator that doesn't do something like this
> >is doomed to fail -- *nobody's* feed has the encoding labelled
> >properly.  (Well, maybe not "nobody", but certainly not very many.)
>
> Certainly not nobody. My feeds are strictly always well-formed.
> [...]

Actually, I haven't found well-formedness to be much of
a problem, at least in the feeds I'm subscribed to.

I was talking about the encoding: what the HTTP Content-Type
header says and what the XML declaration says don't always
agree with each other, and don't always accurately reflect
what encoding the document is actually in.


--Joe English