On Jan 26, 2005, at 23:46, Tim Bray wrote:
On Jan 26, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
But if you can always substitute type='TEXT' with type='XHTML' but not the other way round, what's the point of having type='TEXT' in the spec?
With type='TEXT' you know it's not going to contain any (X)HTML formatting, so you don't have to invoke your (X)HTML renderer.
Is it useful to support that kind of optimization on the format level? I would expect a feed renderer to use the same rendering approach for all titles for visual consistency. Even if a renderer chose to make optimizations, surely it could check for element children itself (which would be more robust than trusting the feed generator).
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
