- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:17:14 +0100
- To: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>
- CC: www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
Karl Dubost wrote: > ... > # PRODUCING BROKEN XML > > The fact is that many atom feeds are broken for many reasons. > > * edited by hand > * created by templating tools which are not XML producers > * mixing content from different sources (html, db, xml) with different > encodings > > It means when designing an atom feed consumer, implementers are forced > to recover the broken content to be able to make it usable by the crowd > (social impact). Second part of the postel laws "Be liberal in what you > accept". > ... Are you *really* sure about that? My understanding is that there are popular Atom consumers that require proper XML (except for the RFC3023 issue), and that falling back to handle broken XML is actually not needed (opposed to RSS). BR, Julian
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