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RE: Postel's law, exceptions

• To: "Rich Salz" <rsalz@d...>,"Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:35:16 -0800
• Cc: "Michael Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Postel's law, exceptions

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Salz [mailto:rsalz@d...] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:23 AM
>To: Elliotte Rusty Harold
>Cc: Michael Champion; xml-dev@l...
>Subject: Re:  Postel's law, exceptions
>
>My view:  whenever Atom is carrying content, it should be 
>possible to insert base-64-encoded content.  Then the Atom is 
>pure XML, and the content is safely carried, leaving it for 
>the poor user with their "tag soup" browser, or what have you, 
>to deal with.  Luckily, you can do that with Atom.  Mark 
>Nottingham is writing the strict RFC spec (using Marshall's 
>tasteful RFC 2629 XML package); see
>http://www.mnot.net/drafts/draft-nottingham-atom-format-02.html
>#rfc.section.3.1

Exactly how does this solve the most common errors in RSS (and most
likely ATOM) feeds?
1.) Unescaped ampersands in link elements
2.) documents with incorrect endoding in the XML declaration
3.) Use of HTML entities in the document such as in the <title> 


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