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   Re: [xml-dev] Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers

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At 19:41 15/01/2004, Bob Wyman wrote:

>     If we pass on the bad stuff, we'll be accused by our clients of
>creating badly formed RSS files. On the other hand, if we "clean up"
>the stuff we find, we may find that the owners of the source feeds
>object to our modifying what they published. Some may thank us for
>fixing obvious problems, however, I'm nervous that one day one of our
>"cleanup" routines will cause a semantic, not just syntactical, change
>in the content... What should we do?

And who might be held liable Bob if its a real nasty error?
   I guess this is how the html mess started.
Lets just....
   then we can just ....


regards DaveP






 

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