* Danny Ayers wrote:
>> This does not make much sense to me, it is either not possible to write
>> a test case for the first requirement in which case this would be an im-
>> plementation detail which is out of scope of the specification, or it is
>> possible to write such a test case in which case this would render Atom
>> inconsistent with a broad range of XML technologies, e.g., for
>> 
>>   <atom:foo bar="baz" />
>
>Sorry, swap in the word 'consumer'. Straight XML applications will see
>that exactly as written, languages that require disambiguation of 
>'bar' will read it as 'atom:bar'
>
>A test case would be an RDF processor seeing the triples:
>
>_:fooinstance rdf:type atom:foo .
>_:fooinstance atom:bar "baz" .
>
>(assuming atom:foo was a class)

If this implementation detail is exposed to the user, it would seem
reasonable to consider such a software a Atom-to-something-else con-
verter; you would thus seem to propose the introduction of conformance
requirements for Atom conversion programs into the specification. No?
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