Re: Resources for AtomPub parser validation

[Daniel Jalkut <jalkut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks again everybody. It sounds like my XML parser is "doing the  
right thing" (and why wouldn't it, it's libxml2), and to the extent  
that there is confusion to be sorted out, it's in the "post  
extraction" phase of my app.

On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

> You're into judgment-call territory.  The actual URL in that link is  
> "foo?bar=1&baz=2".  No room for argument there.  In an ideal world,  
> that's what the user would type and that's what the user would see.   
> Of course, in an XML document, it's going to be encoded as "foo? 
> bar=1&baz=2" because "&" is a magic character in XML.  In a  
> traditional bad-HTML-on-the-web doc, of which there are billions,  
> you'd quite likely just write it as

Indeed. I'm convinced by this thread that the best thing for me to do  
is to find a trusted server and do some round-trip tests to satisfy my  
expectations about how things should be handled.

And I'll take another look at that Text Constructs section of the RFC  
you suggested.

Thanks again!
Daniel