I wrote:
>> Well, you could have (X)HTML in atom:rights.
Eric Scheid replied:
> hmmm ... you could, and that might be a sneaky way past the spec saying
> atom:rights wasn't intended to be machine readable.
>
>> 4.2.10. The "atom:rights" Element
>
>> The atom:rights element SHOULD NOT be used to convey machine-readable
>> licensing information.
Hmm. OK, this is interesting.
I have a blog. (The backing store for this blog happens to be Atom Entry
Documents, but I suspect that mightn't matter in this case.) Entries of
this blog often have atom:rights that look like so:
<atom:rights type="xhtml">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
Copyright © 2007
<a href="http://edward.oconnor.cx/";>Edward O’Connor</a>.
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/";
rel="license">Some rights reserved (CC BY-SA 3.0).</a>
</div>
</atom:rights>
It happens to be the case that the XHTML content of this atom:rights
element contains content which conforms to the rel-license microformat,
and thus is, in principle, machine-readable.
Is this invalid? If so, why? If not, why not?
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Edward O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
