Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

[Sam Ruby]

Antone Roundy wrote:
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, at 12:47  AM, Eric Scheid wrote:
On 27/1/05 6:23 PM, "Henri Sivonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But type='TEXT' is only a degenerate case of type='XHTML' (type='XHTML'
with only text content). What value does type='TEXT' add to the format
except the ability of feedvalidator.org to detect cases where there are
element children although the author claims there are not, which
suggests an authoring error? Does type='TEXT' intentionally exist only
to add this feedvalidator.org value?
maybe it exists so I can write a title which looks like this
    "I hate the <blink> tag"
which is the plain text rendition, or if I wanted to code it in 
html/xhtml
it would be

    "I hate the &lt;blink&gt; tag"
and then applying XML escaping ... would be the following? ...
    <title type='TEXT >I hate the &lt;blink&lt; tag</title>
    <title type='HTML >I hate the &amp;lt;blink&amp;&lt; tag</title>
    <title type='XHTML>I hate the &amp;lt;blink&amp;&lt; tag</title>
In a message sent off-list to me last June, which I no longer have, but 
referred to in a message on list[1], Sam said that:

    <content type="inline-xhtml">
        &amp;copy;
    </content>
should be rendered "&copy;", not as a copyright symbol (because it's not 
in the XHTML namespace, ie. it's not this:)
I did say that that's how it should be rendered (I forwarded to you my 
original email) but the reason has nothing to do with namespaces.

    <content type="inline-xhtml">
        <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>&amp;copy;</span>
    </content>
...which seems to suggest that the above XHTML example should be:
    <title type="XHTML">I hate the &lt;blink&gt; tag</title>
yes
or:
    <title type="XHTML"><span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>I 
hate the &amp;lt;blink&amp;&gt; tag</span></title>
no
Clearly some examples ARE in order.
- Sam Ruby