On Monday, May 2, 2005, at 03:27 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote:
Antone Roundy wrote:I'd support forbidding any attributes other than (a) namespace declaration(s) on container elements...in fact, I'm going to add that to PaceXmlContentWrapper.
Won't that complicate validation a lot?
Not being a validator author, I don't know. An equally acceptable alternative, would be to state that consumers MAY ignore attributes other than namespace declarations on contain elements.
If the author adds a div or span, that's fine. But if the software ads it, it's altering the author's content, and should have a way to so indicate so that the change can be undone.
There are two kinds of Atom document producers:
- people who create them by hands or code their own application/script to build them from their content: these are in the first category: "the author adds a div or span".
- software that is used by authors but is not coded by them. I don't think much of these will produce prefix-free Atom documents
Blogger could always change, but right now, they do. Since it doesn't require fiddling with the content as much (the XHTML would still need to be validated or at least checked for well-formedness in a robust app), I don't think it will be as rare as you're suggesting.
