• To: Michael Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:26:10 +0100
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Michael Champion wrote:

> OK, I'll bite and expose my lack of attention to the details  -- why are 
> smart quotes illegal in XML?  (Or is it that the encoding is 

They aren't.

> mis-specified?) Was this proposed to be fixed in XML 1.1?  Does anyone 

It was mis-specified (actually it wasn't specified at all, and as it 
wasn't UTF-8 it should have been).

> outside the RSS/Atom world complain about this?

Any XML parser MUST reject it, otherwise it doesn't deserve the name.

> ...

I'll not comment on the rest because it seems to say that because of 
recent advances, we don't need a well-defined markup syntax. Somehow I 
doub this is true :-)

Julian

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