On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Bernd Fondermann <[email protected]> wrote: > But you are right, RFC3920 which you cite seems more relaxed with > respect to parsing the XML superset. > One might argue now that RFC3920 is normative, while the -bis drafts are > not (yet). But I think that the drafts better reflect todays state of > XMPP and support more robust (and more simple, maintainable etc.) > parsers: Fail-fast is good for those parts of the parser which otherwise > would be rarely executed and thus would be more prone to security holes.
/me makes a mental note to check the drafts before asking :-) I agree we should follow the draft spec in this case, primarily because I think it makes more sense to signal an error to the client, rather than just ignore. /niklas
