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Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1

• To: berend@x... (Berend de Boer)
• Subject: Re: Perceived C/B for XML 1.1
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:53:27 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3DB44959.6000504@x...> from "Berend de Boer" at Oct 22, 2002 07:37:13 AM

Berend de Boer scripsit:

> I think this world would be a better place if we were very conservative 
> in what we accept. If you aren't, the generators are sloppy as well, 
> because faults are never detected. And if a big vendor makes a fault in 
> its generation, you even run the danger of becoming it a standard.

"Conservative" in this context means "strictly conforming to a standard".
"Liberal" means "strictly conforming to one or more versions of a standard."
It does not necessarily mean "attempt to repair the garbage you get."

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra

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