Agreed. folks that process feeds (including content) as complete
documents would need to be aware of the potential problems, but overall,
it should be fine.
Tim Bray wrote:
On Jan 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, James M Snell wrote:
Because of the way that most feed readers process content, this is
probably unlikely to be a problem; however, there still is the
potential for issues. For instance, what if this entry is included in
an atom feed that contains another entry whose xhtml content uses the
same anchor id's?
Well, entries are typically viewed one at a time, so in practice it's
not apt to be a problem. I think same-doc refs should be just fine in
general. -Tim