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RE: Postel's law, exceptions


RE:  Postel's law
Pushback or no, Postel doesn't apply to XML by design.

len


From: Michael Champion [mailto:mc@x...]

On Jan 13, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> This has come up before, but the chant "Postel's law has no exceptions"
> seems to be coming again, in the RSS context.

Is this really about Postel's law or pushback on the overly draconian 
(in some opinions) XML spec?   Or is this a typical weblog/RSS 
community bashathon  because (ahem) one of the vocal proponents of 
being conservative apparently wrote software that doesn't  actually 
conform to the XML spec?

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