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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