Re: [xml-dev] Perceived C/B for XML 1.1

[Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com>]

John Cowan wrote:

>Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send.
>
Eh, what was the name of that language, yeah, that one with the buffer 
overflows. C, that's the name!

I think this world would be a better place if we were very conservative 
in what we accept. If you aren't, the generators are sloppy as well, 
because faults are never detected. And if a big vendor makes a fault in 
its generation, you even run the danger of becoming it a standard.

Regards,

Berend. (-: