Using extension attributes is a perfectly legitimate solution. The one drawback is that not all implementations will support 'em.
- James James Aylett wrote: > We've run across a situation where we want to annotate an atom:icon > with a title. Currently we're doing the following, as something that > Feed Validator is happy with, but doesn't feel right: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > <atom:icon>uri:to/icon</atom:icon> > <myns:icon-title xml:lang='en' xmlns:myns='...'>My icon > title</myns:icon-title> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It doesn't express the relationship directly. The way that would be > most natural in XML doesn't seem to be allowed (because we don't have > extension attributes): > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > <atom:icon myns:title='My icon title' ...>uri:to/icon</atom:icon> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > and all other ways I can think of involve extension elements in the > wrong place. > > Anyone have another suggestion on how to approach this? Or would we be > better off adding our own <myns:icon/> which we can decorate with > titles, languages and whatever to our heart's content, even though > it's redundant to some extent? > > James >
