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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 /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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