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RE: [xml-dev] Why does validation fail with a named ENTITY for carriage return and line feed?

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Liam R E Quin <>
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David Lee <>
Date
2012-10-24T18:40:09Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Why does validation fail with a named ENTITY for carriage return and line feed?
On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 17:40 +0000, David Lee wrote:
> IMHO this design suffers from merging of layers.
> The FROM address does NOT include the CR/LF, 
> The SMTP payload protocol does.

+1

Also note that tools may normalize line endings in incoming data, e.g.
to \n or to \r, and also that some mail transport agents may incorrectly
send mail over SMTP with just newlines there.

Liam

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