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Re: well-formedness error



/ Anne van Kesteren <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| Should clients parse or ignore invalid feeds? Is it one of the goals
| of Atom to specify this or is it left open for implementors? Does Atom
| make any notes, normative or informative, about it?

IMHO, clients should be required to utterly ignore feeds that are not
well-formed XML.

I am in the distinct minority on this point, but c'est la vie.


                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> | The sudden disappointment of hope
http://nwalsh.com/            | leaves a scar which the ultimate
                              | fulfillment of that hope never entirely
                              | removes.--Thomas Hardy

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