Erik Wilde wrote:
> Brian Smith wrote:
> > There are other similar issues too. For example, some parts of
> various Atom
> > specifications use a comparison function for atom:link/@type that
> isn't
> > defined. I do the comparison the same way as we do in HTTP (case-
> insensitive
> > except for quoted values, whitespace normalized, parameter-for-
> parameter
> > comparisons). Another example is atom:link/@length which doesn't have
> a
> > normative grammar. I use "DIGIT+" as the grammar in my projects.
> 
> Are these things discussed in an erratum or in some other well-know
> place or document? http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=4287
> does not show any atom errata, and the things you are mentioning
> (undefined comparisons, missing grammars) should definitely be recorded
> somewhere, shouldn't they?

At one point I had collected a bunch of minor issues like this with RFC 4287
and RFC 5023, and I even shared a few on the list in the past. After trying
to work with AtomPub for a while I've realized that AtomPub is a useless
standard and Atom usually causes more problems than it solves. I may be able
to dig up the list of issues if somebody else is interested in doing
something with them. 

- Brian


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