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Re: Postel's law, exceptions


postel s law rfc
He goes a bit overboard, but Mark Pilgrim makes some good points:
    http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experiment
(What, Mark going overboard?  I'm shocked I say, shocked.)  Don't lose 
his point: it's not necessarily invalid markup, but different character 
encodings, too.

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

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