Sun 2002-11-10 10:44, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 > St Louis and XML both enforce proper structure in the format itself, 
 > without relying on ignorable rules in the specification.  (and 
 > eventually someone will try an alternate use for the Uplink, you watch)

If there are rules in the spec, they can't be ignored!  That's like saying
"I'm going to comply with FTS-9, but I'm going to ignore the
requirement to generate serial numbers in a three year period, bugger that,
let's make it three weeks instead."  You just can't do that.  ;-)

I don't know what alternate use people would use for the Uplink keyword,
but it won't matter, because the spec won't allow them to.  And anyone
using broken software that doesn't comply to the spec would be risking
being denodelisted until they stop using it presumably.

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