Oh yeah, fully aware of the potential issues.
- James
James Holderness wrote:
I've only been half following the discussions here, so please forgive
me if I'm misinterpreting what you're doing, but it looks to me like
you intend to use XML processing instructions (PIs) for your control
elements. Yes?
If that is the case, you should be aware that PIs aren't structured
like XML elements - they're completely freeform. This means that
anyone writing an Atom server will most likely not be able to make use
of an XML parser to parse the attributes associated with those
elements. All that parsing will need to be done manually (or so I
would expect).
Of course the benefits of using PIs may outweigh the expense of the
extra processing. I don't know. I just thought you should be aware of
the possible implications in case you weren't already.
Regards
James
James M Snell wrote:
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<?blog-control private="yes" scheduled="2005-12-12T12:00:00Z" ?>
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feature="http://example.com/blog/feature/comments-moderated"; ?>
<?blog-enable
feature="http://example.com/blog/feature/comments-remote"; ?>
<?blog-enable
feature="http://example.com/blog/feature/convert-line-breaks"; ?>
<?blog-enable
feature="http://example.com/blog/feature/send-comment-notification"; ?>
<?blog-notify type="http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/";
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<?blog-notify type="http://www.technorati.com/developers/ping/";
endpoint="http://www.technorati.com/ping/"; ?>
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<title>...</title>
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