[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Postel's law, exceptions
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > > > > The original statement of the law comes from section 2.10 of RFC 793 > > which can be found here: > > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/rfc/rfc793.txt > > > > The actual quote is: > > > > TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be > > conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from > > others. Following through from Rick's comments... There's been talk of XML being an exception to Postel's law. Others say there are (or should be) no exceptions. But XML isn't designed to be robust, at least not on the level of syntax, so it neither is or isn't an exception, because a principle of robustness simply doesn't apply. QED, RSVP. Cheers, Danny.
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