--On March 20, 2005 11:44:30 AM -0800 Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good point. My impression is that we do currently have SHOULD-level mandate > to > serve valid HTML; recognizing that most real-world implementors do make a > best-effort > with tag soup. Anyone who thinks that the language needs improving should > suggest > improvements.
I support a SHOULD on that. The Robustness Principle would suggest exactly that. Consumers of Atom may make an attempt to parse arbitrary HTML-like content, but producers should make the effort to serve clean HTML. That free-range HTML is nasty stuff. In the past week, we had two customers freely mixing slash and backslash in their URL paths. Sigh. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
