Re: Comments on format-05

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Scheid
On 1/2/05 5:31 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option would be to allow one content with inline content, and alternative content by reference, eg. (not being careful about getting language tags correct): +1

Re: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-02-01 Thread Danny Ayers
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:51:21 -0500, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atom:nameAnonymous (from IP: aaa.bbb.ccc.)/atom:name Well yes, and there's always: atom The title of this feed is The Stuff and the first entry it contains is titled Hello World from 1st February, and that has the

Re: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-02-01 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:58:52 +0100, Danny Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:51:21 -0500, Joe Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atom:nameAnonymous (from IP: aaa.bbb.ccc.)/atom:name Well yes, and there's always: atom The title of this feed is The Stuff and the

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-02-01 Thread Graham
On 31 Jan 2005, at 7:02 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote: If the concern about multiple content is solely that it will result in more bandwidth use, I think it's misplaced; people who are concerned about bandwidth won't publish multiple representations inline; forcing them not to by legislation is

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Julian Reschke
Mark Nottingham wrote: And, if you use XSLT, it's also possible to do it all in-stylesheet, with or without links. Safari (and probably other things) don't do XSLT. Fair enough. Safari is said to get a (libxml-based) XSLT engine in the next major upgrade. Best regards, Julian -- green/bytes

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Robert Sayre wrote: If I tell NetNewsWire to GET something in the subscribe dialog, my dispatching instructions are clear. Everything is a feed. Making up rules for application/xml, text/xml, and application/octet-stream will require superceding some RFCs that I'd rather not mess with. What

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Sayre
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Robert Sayre wrote: If I tell NetNewsWire to GET something in the subscribe dialog, my dispatching instructions are clear. Everything is a feed. Making up rules for application/xml, text/xml, and application/octet-stream will require superceding some RFCs that I'd

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Robert Sayre
Sam Ruby wrote: Interoperability will be improved if we can nail down what are valid media types that atom feeds can be served with, and what are invalid media types that should always be rejected. We can build voluntary conformance test suites for aggregator developers to test against. The

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Nottingham
On Jan 31, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Antone Roundy wrote: Another option would be to allow one content with inline content, and alternative content by reference, eg. (not being careful about getting language tags correct): content type=TEXT xml:lang=en_USThis is a pen/content content type=text/html

RE: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Bob Wyman
I thought atom:host was made redundant by the combination of HeadInEntry and FeedLink... bob wyman

Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
A few comments as I read the latest draft; apologies if I've missed relevant discussion, a pointer would be greatly appreciated in that case. * 3.1 Text Constructs -- Since the atom:content no longer references this construct, my preference would be to remove this section altogether and make

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Graham
On 30 Jan 2005, at 7:48 am, Mark Nottingham wrote: If so, why doesn't atom:author allow markup for the Person's name as well? It would be odd, for example, to allow publishers to affect the presentation of the title, but not the author's name. Some people already use italics in their titles. Who

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 30/1/05 6:48 PM, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * 3.1 Text Constructs -- Since the atom:content no longer references this construct, my preference would be to remove this section altogether and make atom:title, atom:copyright, atom:summary, atom:tagline and atom:info have simple

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Eric Scheid wrote: On 30/1/05 6:48 PM, Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * 4.15 The atom:content Element -- I strongly believe that more than one atom:content should be allowed; there are use cases when there are multiple representations of the item, and it is useful and necessary to

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Anne van Kesteren
* 4.15 The atom:content Element -- I strongly believe that more than one atom:content should be allowed; there are use cases when there are multiple representations of the item, and it is useful and necessary to communicate this in the feed. I suggest that multiple atom:content elements be

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Mark Nottingham wrote: My gut feeling is that removing the markup from these elements will make the spec much simpler and easier to implement, without sacrificing many (if any) use cases. If I'm not aware of someone's use case here, I'm sorry and I'd love to hear about it. It doesn't really

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Anne van Kesteren wrote: * 4.15 The atom:content Element -- I strongly believe that more than one atom:content should be allowed; there are use cases when there are multiple representations of the item, and it is useful and necessary to communicate this in the feed. I suggest that multiple

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Sam Ruby wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: * 4.21 The atom:info Element -- If it's not considered meaningful for processors, why does there need to be a standard element for it? At the very least, some sort of information about its semantics should be documented. My preference would be to drop it.

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: * 4.21 The atom:info Element -- If it's not considered meaningful for processors, why does there need to be a standard element for it? At the very least, some sort of information about its semantics should be documented. My preference

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Sam Ruby wrote: Then I am clearly confused. At the moment, the feedvalidator would mark an atom feed as invalid if it were served with the text/plan, application/rss+xml, or application/rdf+xml media types. It accepts as valid text/xml (if the feed is either ASCII or a charset is explictly

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Sam Ruby wrote: I am still confused. Transforming an Atom feed into another format does not result in a valid Atom feed. Right, but it's useful for the tranformation. If I am conflating validity with media types, then so is the XML specification. I don't understand that, could you explain? If

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ruby
Robert Sayre wrote: If I am conflating validity with media types, then so is the XML specification. I don't understand that, could you explain? See the XML specification section F.2 [1]. It is quite possible for an XML document to be valid if served with media type application/xml, but for

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Sam Ruby wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: If I am conflating validity with media types, then so is the XML specification. I don't understand that, could you explain? See the XML specification section F.2 [1]. It is quite possible for an XML document to be valid if served with media type

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Robert Sayre wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: My gut feeling is that removing the markup from these elements will make the spec much simpler and easier to implement, without sacrificing many (if any) use cases. If I'm not aware of someone's use case here, I'm sorry

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Mark Nottingham wrote: ... +1 There may be good reasons for atom:host and atom:info to be there, but they aren't really obvious by reading the spec alone. Best regards, Julian -- green/bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
Big +1! On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: We should either explicitly allow application/xml in section 2, or remove this element. I'm not sure which I prefer. atom:info is useful during transformations. Tossing atom:info will result

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Robert Sayre wrote: Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: We should either explicitly allow application/xml in section 2, or remove this element. I'm not sure which I prefer. atom:info is useful during transformations. Tossing atom:info will result in

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ruby
Julian Reschke wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: We should either explicitly allow application/xml in section 2, or remove this element. I'm not sure which I prefer. atom:info is useful during transformations. Tossing atom:info will

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: Mark Nottingham wrote: * 4.11 The atom:host Element -- I'm surprised to see this in an IETF specification; people are going to make bad assumptions about the content of this, and violate layering to populate it. At the VERY least, I'd expect to see text in Security

atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
I'm not going to lie down in the road to get rid of atom:host, if there are a lot of people that want it badly. However, it should be more completely specified; i.e., some mention in security considerations, and also, more information about the association. Right now, it's just domain name or

Re: Comments on format-05

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
OK. So, why is it necessary to standardise this element? Look at http://www.mnot.net/test/atom.xml which is the same feed, but with atom:info replaced by a 'foo' element. Because the atom document has to reference the CSS anyway, it's entirely reasonable to have the css specify what element

atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Graham
On 31 Jan 2005, at 2:40 am, Mark Nottingham wrote: which is the same feed, but with atom:info replaced by a 'foo' element. Even better, you can drop foo and put the xhtml div as a direct child of feed. Then use feed div as the selector. And, if you use XSLT, it's also possible to do it all

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Graham wrote: On 31 Jan 2005, at 2:40 am, Mark Nottingham wrote: which is the same feed, but with atom:info replaced by a 'foo' element. Even better, you can drop foo and put the xhtml div as a direct child of feed. Then use feed div as the selector. Nice! And, if

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Mark Nottingham wrote: So, the relevant question seems to be whether any browsers do something interesting with +xml media types; No, the relevant question is whether +xml media types can be reliably dispatched without any knowledge of a specific scheme. I don't know the answer, but I do know

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
RFC 3023, Section 7: This document recommends the use of a naming convention (a suffix of '+xml') for identifying XML-based MIME media types, whatever their particular content may represent. This allows the use of generic XML processors and technologies on a wide variety of different

Re: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Sayre
Joe Gregorio wrote: I believe atom:host is the long lost descendent of atom:ipaddr, which came from the problem I had implementing Atom on wiki, where the 'author' of an entry can be difficult to pin down and the ip address may be the only information available. If atom:host is what the

Re: atom:host [was: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-30 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 30, 2005, at 8:09 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: Yay! Let's drop atom:host. +1 oh yes please, I always thought it was lame-ass. -Tim