Re: single point of failure, HTML-style

From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Sun Apr 29 2001 - 07:41:29 PDT


It's also untrue. As has become clear in the last few days, most of the
aggregators ignore the DTD. Much ado about not very much. Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@ebt.com>
To: <fork@xent.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: single point of failure, HTML-style

> This article is pretty uninformed.
>
> > >Now a bazillion sites are broken because the file was an XML DTD.
> > >DTD's live in just one place. By definition.
>
> Untrue.
>
> > > >The problem here is that the RSS format was written in XML and
> > used a DTD
> > > >(document type definition) that was stored on the Netscape
> > > >servers. Whenever *someone* *somewhere* tries to parse a RSS file the
> > > >Netscape server is queried for the file and the RSS file is validated
> > > >against it. So now that Netscape removed the file people don't
> > get to see
> > > >the RSS summary but get an error instead.
>
> This is a poor architecture. Don't blame XML for bad applications....
>



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