- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:37:46 -0500
Lachlan Hunt wrote: > The Yellow Screen of Death is about as annoying as you can get. I > really don't understand how you can go on about the benefits of XML > because it requires well-formedness, but then turn around and say XML > can be served as text/html which just makes all your arguments null and > void. Perhaps because you believe the MIME type is a magic incantation that somehow changes the document's nature, and I don't. The document is what it is. A sequence of bytes is either a well-formed XML document or it isn't. I can call it XML, but that doesn't mean it is; and I can say it's not XML, but that doesn't mean it isn't. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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