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Re: Postel's law, exceptions

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:37:45 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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At 8:01 PM -0800 1/13/04, Tim Bray wrote:


>This has evolved into a useful empirical experiment.  Two of the 
>leading aggregator authors (those of NetNewsWire and FeedDemon) have 
>stated that for Atom, they will use a real XML parser and require 
>well-formedness.  Another, NewsGator, has announced that he will use 
>a forgiving parser for Atom.

One wonders what would happen if a popular aggregator began 
auto-e-mailing error messages to the webmaster of each malformed feed 
it encountered.
-- 

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

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  • Re: Postel's law, exceptions
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