* Lisa Dusseault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-16 02:15]: > Since clients post Atom entries and other clients retrieve > them, it seemed reasonable to want to extend Atom > client-to-client. If I used "AtomFu" client that was able to > annotate my entries automatically with what music I was > listening to (track name, album and artist in XML elements) > while I wrote a blog posting, I thought AtomFu should just > store that as XML markup in the entry.
That is, IMO, a misconception about Atom – one that is frequently seen. We just had a similar discussion tonight in #atom on the Freenode IRC network. The track name, album and artist are data; they should be part of the payload of an entry, not part of its envelope. In practice, that means you use either microformats or a more structured format than HTML. Extending the Atom envelope is a strategy of last resort. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
