Kornel, thanks for the input. In the next rev of the draft (following the initial reboot that should publish in a day or so) I'll see what I can do to clarifying some of these issues. As always, suggested spec text is helpful and encouraged. I will do my best to incorporate all editorial changes.
- James Kornel Lesinski wrote: > > > I've noticed that draft-ietf-atompub-autodiscovery-01.txt doesn't > mention XML namespaces and tag prefixes. XHTML can get even more complex > than memo suggests: > > <foo:link xmlns:foo="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; rel="alternate" > type="application/atom+xml" href="bar"></foo:link> > > My suggestion is that instead of specifying all quirks of X[HT]ML syntax: > * require that XML parser is used for XHTML > * if document turns out not to be well-formed (which often is the case > with real-world "XHTML"), allow HTML parsing rules used as fallback > > And then simply state that in XHTML <link> element in > "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; namespace should be used. An example > XPath expression or W3C DOM-based pseudocode might be very helpful there. > > > BTW: in all examples attributes have always the same order. They could > be shuffled to emphasise that order is not significant. > > --regards, Kornel Lesiński > >
