[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Postel's Law Has No Exceptions
> If they are conservative in sending, why do they produce > non-wellformed XML? Certain WebDAV servers seem like a perfect example > of blatant disregard for Postel's law to me. Postel's dictum is in fact the problem here. If implementation A is liberal in what it accepts and implementation B is liberal but in different places, then finding conformance bugs in A and B can be difficult. It can also lead to interop problems when implementation C is brought into the picture, and has to "work around" the two non-overlapping liberalities. Credit Internet Old Boy Padlipsky for first explaining this. /r$ -- Rich Salz Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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