Re: Additional 'namespace' attribute on content element?

2007-01-04 Thread James Aylett
nk you're proposing). James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: Private extensions and relation to atom elements

2006-09-11 Thread James Aylett
checked again, and all is well. Cheers, James -- /----------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: Private extensions and relation to atom elements

2006-09-11 Thread James Aylett
bly the former). Well, it's a private extension, so in practice you're not going to know if we define it or not :-) But yeah, point taken and I'll make sure it gets added to our spec internally. James -- /--\ J

Re: Private extensions and relation to atom elements

2006-09-11 Thread James Aylett
;player' for the atom feeds involved, and some clients want a title alongside the feed icon and/or logo. Feed Validator gets upset with extension attributes - is it wrong? James -- /----

Private extensions and relation to atom elements

2006-09-11 Thread James Aylett
wn which we can decorate with titles, languages and whatever to our heart's content, even though it's redundant to some extent? James -- /------\ James Aylett

Re: Language Negotiation

2006-07-27 Thread James Aylett
other hand, a way of subscribing to one feed that sometimes publishes in both English and (say) French, and only reading one translation of each would be handy. That's probably rel='alternate' within the atom:entry, though. James -- /----

Re: Arr! Avast me hearties!

2005-09-19 Thread James Aylett
nguage=... parameter to the type, but no such parameter exists. (And people might laugh at language=x-piratical-aaargh ... not to mention argue about the number of 'a's required :-) James -- /----

Re: Don't Aggregrate Me

2005-08-25 Thread James Aylett
t. After all, someone can still subscribe their reader directly to the feed. I don't think we need this (but I still like the use case :-). James -- /------\ James Aylett

Re: Two Proposed Resolutions for whitespace handling.

2005-08-05 Thread James Aylett
ignificant), after all. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-04 Thread James Aylett
spell out what Atom consumers should do if they encounter a Date construct with "Last Thursday" in, either. Pointing out the common error AS AN ERROR should be sufficient IMHO. J -- /-

Re: OpenSearch RSS

2005-05-31 Thread James Aylett
ach is - it all depends on what you're trying to do. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: OpenSearch RSS

2005-05-31 Thread James Aylett
he source of the match). This isn't nearly so important, though, and I'm quite willing to accept the shmershing together of the ideas. (Or even that I'm wrong.) James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: OpenSearch RSS

2005-05-31 Thread James Aylett
nal to the OpenSearch issue, but if people are interested in discussing a richer search extension we can try to clear some time to pull it into shape. [1] <http://xapian.org/> James -- /----------\ James Aylett

Re: Review of Atom 0.8 Spec against W3C QA Specification Guidelines

2005-05-25 Thread James Aylett
present, Atom Processors MAY use the IRI > >>to retrieve the content. " > >> > >>What is the behavior of the Atom processor when the MAY is not > >>implemented because it's optional and because it's not mandatory for > >>"Atom Pro

Re: Review of Atom 0.8 Spec against W3C QA Specification Guidelines

2005-05-24 Thread James Aylett
at the Atom processor doesn't retrieve the content. So it doesn't have the content, which it may not care about. > >No consensus to make the schema normative. Everyone had a different > >reason for opposing it, as I recall. :) > > :))) > no more feed validator then. :) A feed validator doesn't have to use a schema, but it could use it for a non-normative check ("you may have problems" - or even kicking in more lengthy checking code only when the schema is violated). This is up to the validator authors. James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
nd two fathers" strongly suggests, to me at least, that they are distinct sets.) James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
t religious about this particular issue, and I'm +1 on the latest PaceClarifyAuthorContributor. I think we still need a clarification along the lines of what danbri suggested, to make things as obvious as possible. James -- /---

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
se me any problems, providing (as danbri says) that the spec makes it clear that we're not imposing these restrictions. Let the publishers decide what to say (because they will anyway, even if only in 0.001% of the cases and by mistake in an undetectable way). James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
tions is > about a different entity" would be plenty. I'd be happy with that (particularly as the concept, but I'm happy with it textually as well). James -- /------\ James Aylett

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
tion is to disallow "James Aylett" as both contributor and author, I'm -0 (at least, possibly +0). If your intention is to disallow "James Aylett and James Lark" as authors, and "James Aylett" as contributor (with "James Lark" as a second contributor) then I

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
e precise about what the semantics are without this rule, IMHO. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
ntical textual strings? Seems an arbitrary non-technical semantic to me. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceClarifyAuthorContributor posted

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
ut resorting to fuzzy matching? I thought we???d > gone over this. I think we're trying to do too much here. Why on earth are we disallowing a list of authors that includes the same person twice? Why does it actually cause problems? I can write the following English sentence: "The boo

Re: Author and contributor

2005-05-23 Thread James Aylett
+.5 from me +1, +.5, +.5 from me. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: multiple atom:author elements?

2005-05-20 Thread James Aylett
if necessary). So I'm actually +0, I guess. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: the "atom:copyright" element

2005-05-08 Thread James Aylett
doesn't make sense logically, it seems the only viable tradeoff that has any real utility. James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: the "atom:copyright" element

2005-05-08 Thread James Aylett
Derivatives, Non-Commercial'" and pointing to the CC URI is fine, but saying "follow this URI for rights info" and nothing else isn't. I'm concerned that making an explicit URI part of the right elements would encourage people to shift the bal

Re: PaceCaching

2005-05-05 Thread James Aylett
lients to check it for the next x minutes. Indeed - Expires doesn't say it won't change, it says that you shouldn't care whether it's changed. James -- /------\ James Aylett

Re: Atom feed refresh rates

2005-05-05 Thread James Aylett
ffected by it (by writing server components) is pretty small. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Editorial: missing "a"

2005-05-02 Thread James Aylett
Not sure if anyone's pointed this out. Section 4.2.9.2 (the "rel" Attribute), second paragraph: > The value of "rel" MUST be string ... which should probably be "... MUST be a string ...". James -- /----

Re: FYI: More on duplicates in feeds: DoubleClick does ads the WRONG way!

2005-05-02 Thread James Aylett
pointed out, even if you do book against raw click volumes, your only way of figuring out whether this was the best value you could have made out of your property is to calculate the clickthrough rate, which requires some measure of per-media recording. James -- /-----

Re: suggestion: add new value to type attribute

2005-05-02 Thread James Aylett
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 06:34:44PM +0200, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > James Aylett wrote: > >(Assuming is an acceptable root element for SVG.) > > It isn't. application/xml is probably more appropriate. It would be, if SVG explained how to embed fragments in other XML diale

Re: suggestion: add new value to type attribute

2005-05-02 Thread James Aylett
cceptable root element for SVG.) James -- /----------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: FYI: More on duplicates in feeds: DoubleClick does ads the WRONG way!

2005-05-02 Thread James Aylett
. So yes, Eric is right that they don't care about the ord value. Note however that it's also possible to track other things through DCLK (and other ad industry) tags, and the tag might be generated on the fly based on all sorts of things that they sometimes

Re: PaceCoConstraintsAreBad

2005-04-10 Thread James Aylett
s a MIME media type > [RFC2045] and does not begin with "text/" nor end with "+xml". James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: HTML/XHTML type issues, was: FW: XML Directorate Reviewer Comments

2005-04-10 Thread James Aylett
> > Wouldn't be more readable, in my eyes. OTOH since someone has asked the question who presumably is fairly knowledgable about XML, and most people people are not, would it be worth putting a brief comment pointing to the appropriate section of the XML TR? "Note that in XM

Re: Why is alternate link a MUST?

2005-04-04 Thread James Aylett
er than a subjective call. As such, I don't see the value of making it a MUST - forcing to export their opinions isn't /always/ the purpose of a blog format :-) James -- /-

Re: Why is alternate link a MUST?

2005-04-04 Thread James Aylett
+1 James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: Why is alternate link a MUST?

2005-04-03 Thread James Aylett
ent with a non-HTML version. (Something which I believe can't be done legally with RSS, or at least not all the different breeds. Not that that matters.) James -- /--\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: Why is alternate link a MUST?

2005-04-03 Thread James Aylett
oducers would be helpful. James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org

Re: PaceAlternateLinkWeakening - was Managing entries/entry state

2005-04-01 Thread James Aylett
portant representation. From its point of view, it is - and this is its metadata. > PS. grammarians might want to tell me of it is "of which" or "for > which". I think it's "of which". It's clear either way, though, which is the important thing :) Ja

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv

2005-02-11 Thread James Aylett
other? Of 1c, there will be a small number of tools-that-have-yet-to-be-written where strong suggestions in the spec would lead to the authors instead choosing 1d. The rest we're going to have to live with, somehow. James -- /---

Re: Posted PaceSimpleLanguageTagging

2005-01-17 Thread James Aylett
eeds to be made clear, or at the very least unambiguously decipherable from the spec.) James -- /------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org