Re: ABNF or code fragments?

On 24 feb 2010, at 10:35, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> We can decide for ourselves what is valid. I think it should be invalid to use percent encoding where it isn't needed, so that validators will warn against using #%74=1 and other stupid things. (But it would still work in conforming implementations.)

Huh?
Either it is valid (which seems to imply that percent-escape-processing happens early) or it is not (if percent-processing happens late). If it is valid then a validator has no business warning about it. This would be a completely different case from, say, t=10,8, for which a validator could conceivably warn that it is syntactically valid, but probably semantically incorrect.

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Received on Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:17:41 UTC