Tim Bray wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: > >> Leading and trailing whitespace input for >> these fields should be discarded by a robust scanner, and doing so >> proposes no risk to compliant feeds, unlike guessing the "true >> meaning" of an ampersand in an RSS feed. So, it will be my >> recommendation to ignore this MUST-level requirement of the Atom spec >> in any consumer aggregator that I contribute to. I think it might be >> useful as bozo filter in an Atom protocol server, because the lazy >> thing for client implementors to do is find a decent serialization >> library. The lazy thing for publishers to do is concatenate strings in >> their loosely-typed language of choice. > > > Uh, anyone who's lazily concatenating strings is pretty soon going to > end up with a free ampersand or something worse in their Atom feed. > Right? -Tim
Right. Doesn't mean everyone (statistically speaking) isn't doing it. Using templating languages to generate feeds comes to mind. cheers Bill
