- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:28:00 +0300
On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:03, Jim Ley wrote: > On 4/12/05, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >> On Apr 12, 2005, at 13:02, Matthew Thomas wrote: >> >>> <http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experiment> >> >> Writing software that is guaranteed to emit well-formed XML is not >> particularly hard. > > That depends on your definition of hard, it's clearly beyond many > people in the community, even such sites as http://webstandards.org/ > and the XML Working group have published non-well formed XML recently > - down to encoding issues, almost always. I can't really see how if > these groups can't do it, when they have marketing aswell as technical > reasons to do it we can expect others to. http://webstandards.org/ uses MT, which has a text-based templating system, instead of a system designed for XML. The architecture of their CMS is not supportive of the goal of producing well-formed XML. It does not rule out alternative architectures or say anything about the hardness of implementing alternative achitectures. Of course, changing the architecture of a program that already has a different architecture is hard. W3C working groups may be using text editors instead of generating XML programmatically. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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