Re: [xml-dev] Validation - Is it worth it ?

If you are positive that your software will do the right thing with 
malformed messages, and you are sure that nobody will ever try to exploit 
any possible bugs or mis-interpretations that might occur, and that nobody 
will ever assign semantics to those messages in the future, then don't 
bother to validate.

Not many systems meet those criteria.

        /r$

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