The mail below is from the WordPress list, they're discussing
including stylesheet references in Atom docs. Have we got anything
like best practices or more palatable workarounds for these
circumstances? (i.e. in addition to using application/atom+xml)

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From: Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Jan 30, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] XSLT: Sample implementation
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


David House wrote:
> Some problems:
>
> 2) Atom support isn't there. Firefox and Konqueror (the browsers I
> tested in) get scared off by Atom's mime type and prompt the user to
> download it. They don't recognise it as XML, so they don't transform
> it. We have two options here: give up or serve as text/xml (I guess
> the latter won't be too popular). Really, browsers should recognise
> application/atom+xml as something they can parse as XML and do so.

That's why I eventually gave up using application/rss+xml and switched
to text/xml for RSS. Maybe it's time to do the same for Atom?

Pete




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