Joe Gregorio wrote:
How is a client supposed to detect that a server rejects any entry with a title/@type="xhtml"? I know that's probably going to be rare, but iti is currently allowed since there is currently no spec text which states:
May not be as rare as you think. The APP implementation I'm currently working on is being grafted over an existing data model in which titles are, you guessed it, text only. Markup in titles is not allowed. If you pass in markup, it would come out as escaped text. Rather than lose data by dropping the tags and changing the type to text, we're rejecting the posts with a 403 Forbidden (possibly changing to a 422).
"A server MUST NOT reject a POSTed entry because of the choice of @type for any of it's Text Constructs."
This would be a mistake. Implementations should have the sole discretion as to what kinds of inputs they will allow; the protocol should not be dictating content requirements.
- James
