Re: well-formedness error

[Jonas Galvez <jg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 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?
>
> I think the specification should say something about it, if not
> already done, to ensure forward compatible parsing.

Just in case you missed it:

http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/postelsLaw
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001025
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/08/19/Draconianism
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/08/postels-law
http://dannyayers.com/archives/002169.html
http://bitworking.org/news/There_are_no_exceptions_to_Postel_s_Law_
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/11/PostelPilgrim
http://norman.walsh.name/2004/01/12/postel
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2770
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/feeddemon_and_w.html
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/01/feeddemon_and_w_1.html
http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=ad9a8344-1eb2-4dcd-ad3c-88d0ed538470
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/14/thought_experiment
http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2004_01_01_congdon_archive.html#107414008399025587
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1690.html
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/16/draconianism
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/16/DraconianHistory
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2785
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2786
http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2791
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_01.html#004702
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_01.html#004721
http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1698.html
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/19/validator-services
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/20/how_liberal_is_too_liberal
http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/01/13#777

I, too, am curious to know what the consensus on this issue is, as I'm
currently working on a PHP-based feed parser (I was going to use Mark
Pilgrim's UltraLiberalParser, so that wasn't a concern, but last week I
got word that it won't be possible to run Python on our webserver).


Regards,

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