Re: FormatTests

2005-07-18 Thread Graham
On 17 Jul 2005, at 11:16 pm, Walter Underwood wrote: Not unless the robustness principal is stupid and irrelevant. Canonical IDs are more robust. Feeds that use them will work better in the quick-and-dirty, "Desperate Perl Hacker" environment of the internet. As long as those intermediaries c

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-17 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-16 18:00]: > I suppose the message you got was > http://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/ObscureEncoding.html ? Err, of course not, but now I’m not sure that http://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/NonCanonicalURI.html is new or was simply changed.

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-17 Thread Walter Underwood
--On July 17, 2005 3:45:26 PM +0100 Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now do you see why canonical ids are stupid and irrelevant? Not unless the robustness principal is stupid and irrelevant. Canonical IDs are more robust. Feeds that use them will work better in the quick-and-dirty, "Desperate

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-17 Thread Graham
On 16 Jul 2005, at 11:27 am, Graham wrote: Also: "Solution: Use the canonical form, given in the warning message." It now says: "All newly issued ids should be in canonical form. Use the canonical form given in the warning message for guidance." (http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/NonCa

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-16 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-16 12:40]: > Are you advocating changing permanent identifiers? Bad Sam. > > ID canonicalization was a bloody stupid idea. Eeep. Even though I don’t think canonicalization was a stupid idea, more careful thought was and is probably necessary about the impact

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-16 Thread Graham
On 15 Jul 2005, at 11:20 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: Can you be more specific? If I plug my new Atom 1.0 feed into the validator: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.fondantfancies.com%2Fblog%2Fatom1%2F Last night, it said the feed wasn't valid, but today it's saying: "War

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-15 Thread Sam Ruby
Graham wrote: Why does the validator apparently fail outright when SHOULD level requirements are ignored? This seems unnecessary in light of having a spec where conformance levels are clearly defined. Can you be more specific? Perhaps this will help: FormatTests documents my intent. If yo

Re: FormatTests

2005-07-15 Thread Graham
Why does the validator apparently fail outright when SHOULD level requirements are ignored? This seems unnecessary in light of having a spec where conformance levels are clearly defined. Graham