Re: [xmpp] Fwd: Fwd: Use of namespace in RFC 3920

[Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net>]

On Thu Sep 24 12:10:37 2009, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Then I wrote the XMPP parser based upon my XML parser, hence the  
> XMPP
> parser gets the qualified name directly. I could change it of course
> and let the ns declarations into the attributes. It is not as though
> it was particularly difficult. But then I add an additional, though
> useless, complexity (check not only the qualified names, but also  
> how
> they have been qualified) to my XMPP parser + the fact that I still
> don't see any reason for this + the fact that I will be refusing
> well-formed and valid XML (so by principle, it is also annoying:  
> XMPP
> namespace usage are not following the W3C recommandations).

<foo/> is also well-formed XML. You - hopefully - reject that too,  
because it's not valid XMPP.

The spec says very little - intentionally - about the validity of the  
XML involved.

Dave.
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