• To: "Michael Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:57:15 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Postel's law, exceptions

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Champion [mailto:mc@x...] 
>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:38 PM
>To: 'xml-dev@l... '
>Subject: Re:  Postel's law, exceptions
>
>That poses a bit of a problem for the XML community -- is the 
>rational response to "fix" the bits of XML that people stumble 
>over [awaiting shrieks from the people who shot down XML 1.1], 

I work on RSS in my free time. The most common well-formedness errors
are documents with incorrect encodings or documents that use HTML
entities without a reference to the HTML DTD. How exactly do you propose
XML 1.x fix these problems? 

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