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   Re: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions

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Emit some sort of error.  Make it something that's not a show-stopper but don't
just silently cobble up a work around.  Stick a big-Red-X on the treeview.  But
do /something/ to let them know that something's amiss.

That and consider doing some sort of lookups for them.  We run a web service
that you can use to check a feed's known condition.  But basically, don't just
do nothing and silently cobble up a work-around.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>


The issue isn't whether they are bugs in the generator. The question is
whether an aggregator should [for example] try each of the heuristics
below to try to parse an XML document instead of giving Joe User an ugly
error message because the Ziff Davis Microsoft-Watch or National
Geographic RSS feed doesn't specify the correct encoding in the XML
declaration.






 

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