and here I was holding this inside of me as I always assumed "obviously it's implemented for a reason"....
This makes me happy :) Thanks Sam! On 3/31/06, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Antone Roundy wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > > > >> Antone Roundy wrote: > >> > >>> Sam, > >>> > >>> Funny that this should come up today given the recent discussion on > >>> the > >>> mailing list--NetNewsWire isn't getting the links in your Atom feed > >>> right. > >> > >> There is an off chance that I have been following the list. ;-) > > > > I certainly didn't mean to imply that you weren't--I just wanted to > > point out what I'm seeing in case you didn't know that this particular > > feed reader is having this particular problem today. And I thought it > > might be of interest to the WG to know what NNW is doing given that > > it's doing something that has been argued against within the last 24 > > hours. > > ;-) > > > I don't remember which version of your feed I was subscribed to > > before--perhaps I wasn't subscribed to the Atom feed and NNW updated my > > subscription when you redirected to it. So I don't know whether you > > purposely removed xml:base to see what chaos would ensue, or whether it > > hasn't been there all along and I just haven't seen the problem since I > > was subscribed to a different version. > > As late as this morning, all link/@href attributes in my Atom feed > contained absolute URIs. > > One of the original problems that Atom set out to solve was the desire > by people to use relative URIs. Even in their content. In fact, > PARTICULARLY in their content. > > My recent post of Common Feed Errors demonstrate that this demand > certainly exists - even in RSS: > > http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/03/13/Common-Feed-Errors > > It would be helpful if people were to update: > > http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/XmlBaseConformanceTests > > - Sam Ruby > > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com/
