Tim Bray wrote:
On Jan 17, 2005, at 12:47 AM, David Powell wrote:
I think that if we allow xml:lang then it should definitely be restricted. The current "xml:lang everywhere" situation is only simple to implement if you assume that your implementation stores all of it's data in an XML DOM.
This statement is not correct; it's simple to implement correctly if you're doing stream processing.
I think David's issue with xml:lang concerns mapping Atom entries to, say, an RDBMS. I think he feels it will be challenging to store with that requirement. For instance, what does it mean to include an xml:lang declaration on atom:updated?
Robert Sayre
