Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 17:03:09 -1000 (HST), Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then my point is moot as long as XHTML inline content may be XHTML 1.0 Transitional. A second argument that inline XHTML may be XHTML 1.0 Transitional is that it satisfies the need for well-formed XML. You do

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 27/1/05 6:23 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But type='TEXT' is only a degenerate case of type='XHTML' (type='XHTML' with only text content). What value does type='TEXT' add to the format except the ability of feedvalidator.org to detect cases where there are element children

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Henry Story
Thanks for the reply, Sam. I think the misunderstanding has mostly to do with the fact that we have similar but slightly different aims. We should try to clearly establish our respective aims and find the points we have in common, so that we can agree to solve the points we have in common

Re: PaceEnclosuresAndPix status

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 27/1/05 7:26 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer an element, because the nature of the favicon reference is not that a user would want to manually follow the link. That is: icon src='...' or icon href='...' I've drafted a Pace for this...

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 27, 2005, at 09:41, Tim Bray wrote: OK, you've advanced this argument several times now. If you want to change the Atom format to remove type=TEXT, write a Pace (it'll be short easy) and see if you can build consensus. http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceTypeTextRedundant I have to

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Danny Ayers
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:39:23 -0500, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PaceAttributeNamespace does not do that. All it says is is that a given namespace may be used. For what purpose such a statement is made is entirely unclear. Ok, maybe a little more explanation is needed in the Pace. The

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Bill de hÓra
Henry Story wrote: Graham the Robot [1], when real people come and ask me something I'll talk to them. Rudeness objection. I'm seeing genuine questions; fobbing them off (as above) is not helping your case. cheers Bill

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Sam Ruby
Danny Ayers wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:39:23 -0500, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PaceAttributeNamespace does not do that. All it says is is that a given namespace may be used. For what purpose such a statement is made is entirely unclear. Ok, maybe a little more explanation is needed in

PaceIconAndImage, and PaceLinkEnclosure

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
resending with more appropriate subject line, just in case these two new paces got lost in the thread... I'd prefer an element, because the nature of the favicon reference is not that a user would want to manually follow the link. That is: icon src='...' or icon href='...' I've drafted a

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Danny Ayers
I only noticed this thread after looking at the same material through RDF-tinted spectacles. A question for the schema mavens: is there *any* clear way of describing the difference between the three content types (TEXT/HTML/XHTML) in a machine readable fashion? In the Rosy-tinted Description

Re: PaceEnclosuresAndPix status

2005-01-27 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at 10:40 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: so, icon ... or favicon. I prefer the latter. I prefer the former. favicon = favorites icon. I think favorites is a bad name for bookmarks--a person's reason for bookmarking something (or in the case of Atom, subscribing to a

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Henry Story
On 27 Jan 2005, at 15:28, Bill de hÓra wrote: Rudeness objection. One reaps what one sows. [1] I'm seeing genuine questions Since you are asking, I'll answer them. On 26 Jan 2005, at 4:37 pm, Henry Story wrote: I think your assertion is wrong. If they are consuming or producing extended Atom [1]

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Sayre
Graham wrote: On 27 Jan 2005, at 1:34 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceTypeTextRedundant There are cases where explicit is better than implicit. Yes. It's more a psychological rather than a technical difference, but I think it's important (it's like the difference

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 27, 2005, at 17:50, Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 27, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: however, the spec says: The content SHOULD be XHTML text and markup that could validly appear directly within an xhtml:div element. which could lead others to make the same mistake I must have made.

Re: Multiple content allowed?

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Sayre
Bill de hÓra wrote: Norman Walsh wrote: Someone sent me this, noting that it was not valid according to the grammar I posted. He thought it was legal according to the spec, and I'm not sure. What say you? My first thought is that unless there a use-case for multiple content blocks, you've found

Re: Difference of TEXT and XHTML?

2005-01-27 Thread Sam Ruby
Antone Roundy wrote: On Thursday, January 27, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: On 27/1/05 6:23 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But type='TEXT' is only a degenerate case of type='XHTML' (type='XHTML' with only text content). What value does type='TEXT' add to the format except the

Re: Mandatory method of specifying XHTML namespace?

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 27, 2005, at 19:30, Antone Roundy wrote: Given how common it is even for us, when posting examples of content type=XHTML without declaring the XHTML namespace, might it be a good idea to specify a mandatory method of declaring the XHTML namespace to ensure that implementors don't forget?

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Bill de hÓra
Danny Ayers wrote: Yes and no - there is demand for this kind of thing, is the RSS 1.0 community the same as the RDF community? There's a lot of additions around there... Whatever, even with RSS 2.0 there's Easy News Topics and all the stuff associated with media (enclosures + Yahoo's extensions)

I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-format-05.txt

2005-01-27 Thread Internet-Drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Working Group of the IETF. Title : The Atom Syndication Format Author(s) : M. Nottingham, R. Sayre Filename

Re: PaceIconAndImage

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/1/05 4:03 AM, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, why limit this to feed/head, and not entry? So that Atom feeds will be easily convertible to RSS 2.0? Converting *to* RSS 2.0 shouldn't be a goal or even a consideration in any Atom related discussions. Only conversion *from* RSS

Re: PaceIconAndImage

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/1/05 3:08 AM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, why limit this to feed/head, and not entry? So that Atom feeds will be easily convertible to RSS 2.0? Certainly there are ways to add images to entries in RSS 2.0, though not icons (as far as I'm aware), but I don't think

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace is *not* about syntax!

2005-01-27 Thread Danny Ayers
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:49:12 +, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Ayers wrote: Yes and no - there is demand for this kind of thing, is the RSS 1.0 community the same as the RDF community? There's a lot of additions around there... Whatever, even with RSS 2.0 there's Easy

Re: Mandatory method of specifying XHTML namespace?

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/1/05 7:39 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the value of type is XHTML, the content of the Text construct MUST be a single xhtml:div element -1 gratuitous element cruft. The text construct element itself serves as a container. but atom:title != xhtml:title also, are

Re: PaceIconAndImage

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/1/05 10:02 AM, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used a Link construct to keep word count down and now with -05 published there is no generic Link Construct. I'll update the pace with all the necessary extra wordage and bloat. e.

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

Re: Mandatory method of specifying XHTML namespace?

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Scheid
On 28/1/05 4:58 PM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a:copyright type='XHTML'Copyright 2005 John Doe, h:emall rights reserved/h:em/a:copyright (assuming 'a' to be bound to the Atom namespace and 'h' to the XHTML namespace) is less crufty than a:copyright type='XHTML'div

Re: Mandatory method of specifying XHTML namespace?

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 28, 2005, at 01:38, Eric Scheid wrote: On 28/1/05 7:39 AM, Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the value of type is XHTML, the content of the Text construct MUST be a single xhtml:div element -1 gratuitous element cruft. The text construct element itself serves as a container. but

Re: Issues with draft-ietf-atompub-format-04

2005-01-27 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:39, Robert Sayre wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: So I can not include MathML in the TITLE of my weblog? I do not see why this restriction is necessary. Nope. Can any aggregator display it? I expect Gecko-based aggregators to support MathML eventually. After all, once you

Re: Issues with draft-ietf-atompub-format-04

2005-01-27 Thread Robert Sayre
Henri Sivonen wrote: On Jan 27, 2005, at 22:39, Robert Sayre wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: So I can not include MathML in the TITLE of my weblog? I do not see why this restriction is necessary. Nope. Can any aggregator display it? I expect Gecko-based aggregators to support MathML eventually.