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

From
Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
To
Joe English <>
Date
2004-01-14T04:30:17Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions
At 6:01 PM -0800 1/13/04, Joe English 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. 
They're produced by using XSLT to transform hand-authored XHTML, and 
if the XHTML is malformed that day, no feed document is produced, and 
I get an e-mail pinging me with the error. If well-formedness is 
demanded, tools will support it.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA