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



On Friday 25 September 2009 11:07:40 Jehan Pagès wrote:
> 2/ It is not as though it would suddenly break all implementations.
> The RFC should still recommend (with SHOULD) to have a prefix named
> "stream", to define it in the opening stream tag, and to have a
> default namespace in this same tag. And people will most probably
> follow these recommendations anyway, at least because they don't want
> to be broken against some big servers using old implementations.
> But at least the RFC is clean (I like clean designs) and this kind of
> checks can be slowly removed from code bases in time (and never made
> on new codes). No need to hurry. No need any "code camp". That's not
> going to change our lives or make all implementation suddenly
> obsolete. It will be just a "minor bug" which probably will never be
> noticed by users.

Agree.

At this point, I figure a good number of us are using off-the-shelf, compliant 
XML parsers, and so I would like to see the XML generation rules relaxed.  We 
can keep all of the backwards compatibility stuff marked with SHOULDs.

-Justin

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