Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-02-02 Thread Roger B.
Of course things look differently if this issue affects more platforms/parsers/toolkits. It does. I'm in a similar boat. On the other hand, since I'm going to be forced to parse Atom 0.3 until the end of time, and some 0.3 feeds don't use the div, it really doesn't make a difference to me.

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Sam Ruby wrote: ... I've reopened it minus the namespace restriction. I realize that Henri is violently opposed to it, but his objection seem to reduce down to cruft, and he seems to be in the minority. I see there to be a good chance that rough consensus can be found on this pace. ... For

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:43:18 +0100, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, I'm opposed to it, too. Same here. The spec is already saying this: The content SHOULD be XHTML text and markup that could validly appear directly within an xhtml:div element. ...so making it explicit

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Graham
On 30 Jan 2005, at 5:24 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: I've reopened it minus the namespace restriction. I realize that Henri is violently opposed to it, but his objection seem to reduce down to cruft, and he seems to be in the minority. I see there to be a good chance that rough consensus can be found

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 31/1/05 4:43 AM, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The content SHOULD be XHTML text and markup that could validly appear directly within an xhtml:div element. ...so making it explicit in the on-the-wire format seems to be completely useless. what's missing though is guidance that

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Graham wrote: On 30 Jan 2005, at 5:24 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: I've reopened it minus the namespace restriction. I realize that Henri is violently opposed to it, but his objection seem to reduce down to cruft, and he seems to be in the minority. I see there to be a good chance that rough consensus

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Eric Scheid wrote: On 31/1/05 4:43 AM, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The content SHOULD be XHTML text and markup that could validly appear directly within an xhtml:div element. ...so making it explicit in the on-the-wire format seems to be completely useless. what's missing though is

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 30, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: That's an implementation issue that shouldn't affect the format. Without any comment on the issue Julian was addressing, the above is outrageous. Implementation issues are extremely material in discussion of the format. Perhaps more material

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Julian Reschke
Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 30, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: That's an implementation issue that shouldn't affect the format. Without any comment on the issue Julian was addressing, the above is outrageous. Implementation issues are extremely material in discussion of the format.

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 30, 2005, at 21:06, Julian Reschke wrote: OK, I'll try to rephrase: changing the protocol format because one implementor says that this makes it easier to implement IMHO is a bad idea. Of course things look differently if this issue affects more platforms/parsers/toolkits. FWIW, one

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-30 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:57:57 +, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in favor of it. My current parser doesn't let me pull out all childen of element x in one go, so I have to step through in a really hacky way. With this I can just grab the div. You can't grab 'atom:content/*[1]' or something

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-29 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 29, 2005, at 00:39, Sam Ruby wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 20:21, Sam Ruby wrote: I also don't like the restriction on where namespace declarations must be placed, but overall, I believe that the pace is a good idea. I, for one, use gnu.xml.pipeline.NSFilter for ensuring

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Joe Gregorio
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:30:40 -0700, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the question of CSS and/or elements/tags everywhere, I'd think that would be a matter for the security considerations section (protecting against the Raging Platypus, for example). Whatever restrictions we

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Sam Ruby
Antone Roundy wrote: On Thursday, January 27, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:30, Antone Roundy wrote: I'm not in favor of mandating restrictions, because there are probably legitimate uses for anything we might try to protect people against. The namespace div

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Julian Reschke
Sam Ruby wrote: I also don't like the restriction on where namespace declarations must be placed, but overall, I believe that the pace is a good idea. Consumers don't want full web pages (complete with html head and titles) as summaries, they want something that they can *insert* into a web page.

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Graham
On 28 Jan 2005, at 6:21 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: I also don't like the restriction on where namespace declarations must be placed, but overall, I believe that the pace is a good idea. Yes. and it succinctly provides a rather good hint as to what child elements are valid. Yes. I would be OK with either

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Sam Ruby
Julian Reschke wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: I also don't like the restriction on where namespace declarations must be placed, but overall, I believe that the pace is a good idea. Consumers don't want full web pages (complete with html head and titles) as summaries, they want something that they can

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Roger B.
Given that common practice is to include this element, making it mandatory makes things clearer to both people who are producing consuming tools based on the spec, and people who are producing new feeds based on copy and paste. +1 -- Roger Benningfield

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-28 Thread Sam Ruby
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 28, 2005, at 20:21, Sam Ruby wrote: I also don't like the restriction on where namespace declarations must be placed, but overall, I believe that the pace is a good idea. I, for one, use gnu.xml.pipeline.NSFilter for ensuring the namespace correctness in my RSS feed.

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:30, Antone Roundy wrote: I'm not in favor of mandating restrictions, because there are probably legitimate uses for anything we might try to protect people against. The namespace div places restrictions on where namespace declarations appear and, therefore, limits the

Re: PaceXhtmlNamespaceDiv posted

2005-01-27 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, January 27, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:30, Antone Roundy wrote: I'm not in favor of mandating restrictions, because there are probably legitimate uses for anything we might try to protect people against. The namespace div places restrictions on