Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Henry Story
Should one not then to make atom:update a MAY? We don't really need 2 MUST dates. Henry On 16 May 2005, at 00:12, David Powell wrote: PaceAllowDuplicateIDs received some opposition because of its use of atom:updated to differentiate multiple revisions of an entry [1][2] [3]. I've posted a couple

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Sam Ruby
Tim Bray wrote: On May 15, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: evilExtension / Legal? Which part of the spec rules it out? No part. Per http://www.atompub.org/2005/04/18/draft-ietf-atompub-format -08.html#rfc.section.6.2 it's unknown foreign markup, with clear rules for how to handle it,

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Sam Ruby
Graham wrote: I'd like to propose an alternative to atom:modified? I've mentioned this a couple of times before over the last two years, but anyway: The only properties of atom:modified we're interested in are: 1) That different versions have different dates 2) Sorting chronologically puts the

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Eric Scheid
On 16/5/05 8:31 PM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only properties of atom:modified we're interested in are: 1) That different versions have different dates 2) Sorting chronologically puts the versions in the correct order This is to say, the absolute value of the date is irrelevant.

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The benefit the Web derived from HTML's implicit-but-universally-implemented MustIgnore rule; it introduced enough slack into the system that people could experiment without breaking things. Don't you think the Feed Validator should flag my

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Graham
On 16 May 2005, at 2:02 pm, Eric Scheid wrote: what about comparing that entry against other entries? how do you sort a set of entries into chrono order? We have atom:updated and atom:published for that. The value does not need to correspond to any particular event in an entries life-cycle.

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Graham
On 16 May 2005, at 5:16 pm, Eric Scheid wrote: if you want to sort by updated or published, but not for most recently changed (even if not 'significantly') Well yes. So? I consider atom:modified to be unfeasible anyway for all sorts of reasons, so we're not losing any capability here. What if

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Antone Roundy
On Monday, May 16, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Tim Bray wrote: On May 16, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The benefit the Web derived from HTML's implicit-but-universally-implemented MustIgnore rule; it introduced enough slack into the system that people

Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-16 Thread Graham
On 16 May 2005, at 6:06 pm, Eric Scheid wrote: I'm saying that atom:version is an inferior proposition as compared to atom:modified. Your original premise of there being only two properties we're interested in is faulty. With respect to allowing duplicate ids, it isn't. Graham

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Graham
On 16 May 2005, at 5:59 pm, Tim Bray wrote: i) Don't you think the Feed Validator should flag my example as invalid? No. ii) I actually thought that what we meant was what the spec said, and that this was the (very reasonable) outcome of our discussion on MustUnderstand. That means that if

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Tim Bray
On May 16, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: I am not looking for a repeat of that discussion. Atom 1.0 Processors cannot distinguish between markup added later on by the IETF and markup added by a third party, so the processing rules must remain as they are. That doesn't mean we should allow

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that putting text in the format spec saying Nobody but the IETF can extend the namespace feels empty and useless, are we going to send Marshall Rose over to beat up anyone who tries? It will happen and we won't be

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Julian Reschke
Tim Bray wrote: On May 16, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: I am not looking for a repeat of that discussion. Atom 1.0 Processors cannot distinguish between markup added later on by the IETF and markup added by a third party, so the processing rules must remain as they are. That doesn't mean

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that putting text in the format spec saying Nobody but the IETF can extend the namespace feels empty and useless, are we going to send Marshall Rose over to

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that putting text in the format spec saying Nobody but the IETF can extend the namespace feels empty and useless, are we going to send Marshall

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of a couple things. One would be collisions (which Sam mentioned). I don't understand- maybe I'm looking at the wrong post? http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15236.html Sam is saying that the IETF can't add a

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of a couple things. One would be collisions (which Sam mentioned). I don't understand- maybe I'm looking at the wrong post? http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15236.html Sam is saying that the IETF

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of a couple things. One would be collisions (which Sam mentioned). I don't understand- maybe I'm looking at the wrong post?

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can think of a couple things. One would be collisions (which Sam mentioned). I don't understand- maybe I'm looking at the wrong post?

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The spec allows anyone to add stuff to the Atom namespace, so the IETF will have to read everyone's documents before they add something to the Atom namespace. The spec does no such thing; that's a psychotic interpretation at best.

PaceOtherVocabularies

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceOtherVocabularies == Abstract == Ban non-IETF use of the Atom namespace. == Status == Open == Rationale == Keep extensions in other namespaces, so the Atom namespace can be safely extended by the IETF. == Proposal == === 6.1 Extensions From

Re: PaceContentAndSummaryDistinct

2005-05-16 Thread Kevin Marks
On May 15, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Tim Bray wrote: On May 14, 2005, at 11:02 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: The atom:content element either contains or links to the full content of the entry. An atom:entry containing an atom:content element MUST be a complete representation of the entry. -1

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only, and this is not a joke, if you agree to add the text What this specification doesn't ban, it allows. Let's leave no room for doubt as to the spirit of interpretation. Future versions of this specification could add new elements and

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only, and this is not a joke, if you agree to add the text What this specification doesn't ban, it allows. Let's leave no room for doubt as to the spirit of interpretation. Future versions of this specification could add new

Re: PaceOtherVocabularies

2005-05-16 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: Software written to conform to this version of the specification will not be able to process such markup correctly and, in fact, will not be able to distinguish it from markup error. Please replace that sentence with something reemphasizing the MustIgnore rule. Stating that

Re: PaceOtherVocabularies

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: Software written to conform to this version of the specification will not be able to process such markup correctly and, in fact, will not be able to distinguish it from markup error. Please replace that sentence with

Re: PaceOtherVocabularies

2005-05-16 Thread Mark Nottingham
Does this imply that this (or another IETF) Working Group cannot mint an Atom extension without putting it into a new namespace, or changing the version number? If so, I think it's a needless constraint. This WG might come up with a backwards-compatible extension and want to put it in the Atom

Re: PaceOtherVocabularies

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this imply that this (or another IETF) Working Group cannot mint an Atom extension without putting it into a new namespace, or changing the version number? They would have to bump the version number. That was the idea behind

Re: extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes

2005-05-16 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too terse - I don't understand why you're asking this. But if you really think that we allow everything we don't ban, we should say that somewhere in the spec. hmm. I could write that Pace if you want, but maybe it would be more productive

Re: PaceOptionalXhtmlDiv

2005-05-16 Thread Martin Duerst
(BI just had another idea: (B (BWhy don't we use a totally different element name, rather than div? (BWhat about e.g. wrapper? This could be pro-forma in the XHTML Namespace, (Bbut as this isn't handed over to the XHTML rendering engine (as far as (BI understand), it wouldn't matter. Also,

RE: Autodiscovery

2005-05-16 Thread Anil Dash
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-atom- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Marks Subject: Re: Autodiscovery On May 6, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: Sjoerd Visscher wrote: [HTML 4.01 says:] This attribute describes the relationship from the