Aristotle,
> > > Why do you think it is appropriate to have a random PI
> > > processor in between the XML processor and the Atom
> > > processor?
> >
> > Because the XML is just the grammar serializing the ontology,
> > or data structure, of interest. I see Atom processors as
> > normally the B
At 4:54 PM +0200 5/30/05, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Atom is a transport envelope for potentially a multitude of
documents. Saying that the enveloped documents should be
preprocessed before they are unfolded from the envelope is like
saying that a part of a multipart/mime document which has a
"Content-
* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-30 02:35]:
> For a counter example: For internal use I might create an Atom
> feed from atom entries with attached to
> either the feed or the entries. Furthermore, I could add
> instructions for my stylesheet by defining PIs used in the
> entries. In th
* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-30 02:00]:
> > Why do you think it is appropriate to have a random PI
> > processor in between the XML processor and the Atom
> > processor?
>
> Because the XML is just the grammar serializing the ontology,
> or data structure, of interest. I see Atom pr
Aristotle,
> > (2) RSS and Atom documents are now processed with
> > PIs, and there is no way to formally specify
> > when those instructions should be executed (except for specific
> > instances that don't matter here). So any
> > nodes, and PI nodes in general, must be assumed to be linked t
Henri Sivonen,
> A conforming xml-stylesheet processor will only act on the PI if it
> appears in the prolog. For this reason, it would be possible to allow
> xml-stylesheet PIs in atom:content and spec that they are part of the
> content document, so that an XML document with the PI in its pr
* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-28 04:00]:
> > Nothing prevents anyone from writing a generator or pre- or
> > postprocessor for Atom documents to cater to the needs of
> > their particular brand of broken software. Wrangling that
> > particular piece of broken software however is their
On May 28, 2005, at 04:54, James Cerra wrote:
Aristotle, Henri Sivonen,
Yes, but any Atom document MUST be processable from just an XML
processor, an
processor,
A conforming xml-stylesheet processor will only act on the PI if it
appears in the prolog. For this reason, it would be possib
Aristotle, Henri Sivonen,
> > > Entities can be flattened.
> >
> > Again, as with comments, I agree in principle, but in practice
> > some processors depend on them.
>
> I do not consider it at all wise to legislate anything in the
> Atom spec to address these cases.
That's probably a good ide
