Re: XML 1.1 and Atom Spec

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

James Robertson wrote:

> At 08:51 AM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
>
> > James Robertson wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> >
> > > The issues with RSS have nothing to do with the specs, and everything 
> > > to do with "in the wild" usage.  Waving a magic wand and saying "the 
> > > spec says blah!" won't mean anything.  There's also this - what the 
> > > spec says will mean a whole lot less than what the larger entities 
> > > (like Google) actually do with it.
> >
> >
> > So why does it work then for
> >
> > - XSLT,
> > - WebDAV,
> > - SOAP,
> > - SVG,
> > - DocBook,
>
>
>
> Partly because content tends not to be flowing through those things 
> produced by "just anyone" using a (for instance) free Blogger account

Content is created by content producing tools -- those tools just need 
to use a proper XML serializer -- like the thing TimB is working on -- 
and the content will be guaranteed to be wellformed. Problem solved.

Julian


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