Re: dateTime.iso8601 format

[email protected] 9 Jul 2008 16:24:57 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.rpc.specification
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>  <int></int> is not valid. Conforming libs should refuse it.

There's a bit of a philosophical question here.  I don't see it being
really important for an XML-RPC communicant to reject incorrect
XML-RPC.  I.e. an XML-RPC recipient should not be the XML-RPC police.
It would not be a disaster if an XML-RPC recipient were to interpret
<int></int> as zero (which I use as an example because it's something
naive code might do).  What's _really_ required is that an XML-RPC
sender never send <int></int>.  And that where an <int> element does
conform, the recipient interpret it as the correct number.

So I consider the standard to be that recipient behavior is undefined
when you send invalid XML-RPC.

-- 
Bryan Henderson                                   San Jose, California

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