On Jun 18, 2005, at 8:00 AM, David Powell wrote:
Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:14:38 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
My feeling was that we ruled out composite types in *local* content
[...]
I'm still looking, but my suspicion is that we never did rule them
out, and that this restriction crept in during some editorial
rephrasing.
<co-chair-mode>I disagree. Atom 0.3 had explicit built-in support
for multipart, and there was strong (not rough) consensus support for
retiring that and replacing it with the language in the current draft.
My recollection of the debate is that it was exclusively focused on
the problems of multipart in the document, thus I proposed to the WG
that we did not in fact have consensus of banning it in external
content; the feedback so far is supportive of the notion that that's
a bug in the spec.
</co-chair-mode>
