Re: well-formedness error

[Walter Underwood <wunder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:59 AM +0200 Danny Ayers <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>    [RFC 3470 on receiving bad XML ...]  Reasonable behaviors in
>>    such a scenario could include attempting retransmission or aborting
>>    an in-progress session.

But an HTTP GET of a feed does not have retransmission or a session.
There is no way to report the failure back to the software that sent
the badly-formed XML. 

That is why I said there were two situations. One where it is possible
to report the error within the protocol and one where it is not.

I would like to go with RFC 3470 and forbid interpreting badly-formed
XML, but the horse is already out of the barn on that one. Clients
are doing that already. Realistically, we should specify that when
they do it, they must log enough info to fix it and tag the data
as less reliable than your average blog entry (that's a concept!).

wunder
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Walter Underwood
Principal Architect, Verity Ultraseek