• To: 'Michael Champion' <mc@x...>, "'xml-dev@l... '" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:09:17 -0600

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?

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Postel's law, exceptions
    • From: Michael Champion <mc@x...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• Next by Date: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• Previous by thread: Postel's law, exceptions
• Next by thread: Re: Postel's law, exceptions
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread