• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:14:31 -0400

On 4/15/13 10:44 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> If you create a language (using XML or JSON or CSV or ...) that is
> recursively enumerable, then determining the vulnerabilities of that
> language is tantamount to trying to solve the halting problem. No
> amount of programming effort or QA will reveal all vulnerabilities -
> the language is provably insecure and cannot be secured. Hence their
> admonition:
>
>> Science to engineers: some problems are not solvable, do not set
>> yourself up to solve them.

So what then was the purpose of your initial post?  An XML-specific list 
of practices we should abandon on way to doing nothing?

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Re: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • RE: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Re: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • RE: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • RE: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • RE: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
  • Re: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • RE: Features of XML Languages that Increase Complexity?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>