pfarrell Wrote: 
> But as a standard for someone to use to write working and interoperable
> code, ID3 is terrible. Maybe the worst that I've ever tried to work
> with.True. I've written code to read ID3 tags, and was stymied by ambiguities
in the document, contradictions between different versions of the same
standard, lack of examples, lack of a test suite, etc. 
> Maybe the worst that I've ever tried to work with.Oh, I think RFC822 and 
> followons rival it. Not that 822 isn't clear. But
in point of fact no one follows the standards much, so what you really
have to do to parse email headers is a lot of other stuff besides, that
is nowhere documented.


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Michaelwagner
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