Re: Inheritance of license grants by entries in a feed

2007-01-14 Thread David Powell
of implementations seems to agree. I agree that it is important to distinguish between feeds and feed documents, and this is why I think that feed level inheritance of licenses should be dropped as it is incompatible with Atom. Monday, December 18, 2006, 10:22:17 PM, Bob Wyman wrote: On 12/17/06, David

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-15 Thread David Powell
Thursday, December 14, 2006, 9:04:00 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Dec 13, 2006, at 17:51, Mark Baker wrote: But given that an alternative exists which shouldn't break those servers, why not use it when there's no apparent downside? The downside is that implementations that (quite

Re: Atom Entry docs

2006-12-15 Thread David Powell
I've always interpreted a kind of inheritance relationship between MIME types. It's never wrong to label an Excel file, an XML document, or an Atom Feed as application/octet-stream, because all of those types ARE octet-streams. It is just not as helpful as it could be. Likewise, it is never

Re: PaceAtomBidi

2006-10-05 Thread David Powell
I don't have much experience with bidi. I've been having a quick read up on it, and there seem to be the following features. Correct me if I’m wrong. a) Unicode implicitly supports bidi. Write a span containing Hebrew characters, and it will be laid out right to left. We don’t need to do

Re: PaceAtomBidi

2006-10-04 Thread David Powell
It is hard to discuss the impacts without knowing what status we are trying to achieve with this and any other proposed changes to Atom. Are we planning on changing the Atom namespace? Adding inheritable attributes seems like a breaking to change. Existing compliant implementations will

Re: Atom and bidi (was: Re: Atom Syndication Format To Draft Standard?)

2006-10-02 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 12:20:01 AM, James Snell wrote: I think the suggestion of adding a dir attribute is a very good idea. The great thing is that it can be done without any significant backwards compatibility concerns. The definition of the attribute is simple enough:

Re: Atom and bidi (was: Re: Atom Syndication Format To Draft Standard?)

2006-10-02 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 1:55:31 AM, I wrote: As we depend on Unicode, then we can't really stop people from using Unicode bidi. We can't stop people from using HTML/XHTML bidi. Or even CSS bidi controls. I think we should think carefully before we introduce yet another method for bidi

Re: atom license extension (Re: [cc-tab] *important* heads up)

2006-09-06 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, September 6, 2006, 11:38:13 AM, you wrote: So, here's the proposal: - Use link rel=license/ for entry licenses -- either on the feed level, setting a default analogous to what atom:rights does, or on the element level. I think that there are data modelling issues with this

Re: Language Negotiation

2006-07-26 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, July 26, 2006, 8:33:55 PM, James M Snell wrote: Now imagine that we start to apply machine translation to entries, so that we can say, give me all entries, but translate them to French, or English, etc. Would that be best done using conneg or separate URIs? I'd go for seperate

Re: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/XhtmlContentDivConformanceTests

2006-06-28 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 1:22:00 PM, James Snell wrote: Hiding the div completely from users of Abdera would mean potentially losing important data (e.g. the div may contain an xml:lang or xml:base) I don't think that the div should contain an xml:base, because it isn't valid to use

Re: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/XhtmlContentDivConformanceTests

2006-06-28 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 9:55:29 PM, James Snell wrote: David, you're right, ideally the xhtml container div would be nothing but the div, but if it's not, we still need to be prepared to handle it. Silent data loss sucks, if it's silly data :-) I'm just looking at it from the

Re: Link rel test cases

2006-05-26 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 26, 2006, 2:31:40 PM, Andreas Sewe wrote: But the test cases should IMHO not test whether ALTERNATE works, since it should not, but whether http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/alternate; does. But then again my reading of 4.2.7.2 might be wrong. I agree. [EMAIL

Re: Link rel test cases

2006-05-26 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 26, 2006, 6:57:03 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/26/06, James Holderness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logically I would assume the simple string comparison in section 5.3.1 of RFC3987, but I was hoping this would be documented somewhere more explicitly. An atom:id is an IRI too, but

Re: Feed Thread in Last Call

2006-05-25 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 10:31:37 PM, Tim Bray wrote: I would say that furious debates about elements-vs-attributes have been going on since the dawn of XML in 1998, but that would be untrue; they've been going on since the dawn of XML's precursor SGML in 1986. They have never led anywhere.

Re: Feed Thread in Last Call

2006-05-20 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 19, 2006, 1:40:43 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: I've been trying to understand if there's a technical problem with the draft's chosen placement of the attributes and the best case I've seen is that that location is technically disallowed by RFC4287 , an assertion which is disputed

Re: Feed Thread in Last Call

2006-05-18 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 4:50:03 AM, James M Snell wrote: A few of the individuals on the WG had a problem with the placement of the attributes due to various limitations of a few existing Atom 1.0 implementations. That doesn't accurately state my problem with FTE. My concern is more general

Re: Feed update mechanism

2006-05-16 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 16, 2006, 11:18:04 AM, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote: Hi everyone, These days It seems that when UAs request a server to check if a feed has changed the server responds with either an HTTP 304 Not Modified status code or by returning the updated feed. It looks to me as a

Re: Feed thread update

2006-05-05 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 5, 2006, 4:05:15 AM, Tim Bray wrote: Give me a break, we're in the first *days* of something that will be used for at least decades. Todays' APIs will have a vanishingly- small lifespan in comparison The issue isn't that an implementation is at fault. The issue is that a

Re: Feed thread -09

2006-05-05 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 5, 2006, 12:20:25 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * M. David Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-04 23:30]: Or is something like this simply inviting WAY TOO MANY little things to find justification to plug up the collective inbox of the community members? I don’t know. So far during

Re: Atom Rank Extensions

2006-05-03 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 10:06:51 PM, James Holderness wrote: Just looking at that example, it seems to me that an aggregator that implements Microsoft's simple list extensions would get a full-featured representation of that feed without having to know anything at all about feed rank and

Re: Entry types

2006-05-02 Thread David Powell
Monday, May 1, 2006, 8:40:57 PM, James Snell wrote: I'm wondering if it would make sense to have a single common type scheme that could be used consistently across implementations. random thoughts Type seems a bit vague, this seems to be mainly about describing how an entry should be

Re: Atom Rank Extensions

2006-05-02 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 9:12:56 PM, James Snell wrote: Does your implementation properly handle the following (contrived) example: entry xml:base=http://example.org/foo/bar; ... link href=../comments.xml rel=replies / thr:replies href=http://EXAMPLE.org:80/foo/bar/../comments.xml; ... /

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-27 Thread David Powell
Saturday, April 22, 2006, 1:53:26 AM, James M Snell wrote: So this is what I've got: count = element thr:count { attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, attribute ref { atomUri }?, attribute updated { date-time }?, ( nonNegativeInteger ) } I think that is ok. Aristotle's

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 6:11:32 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: atom:link beats thr:replies on the basis that I don't need to understand what replies are to discover that there is a link from this thing to that thing. atom processors know what atom:link is, but it wouldn't know what to do with

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-13 Thread David Powell
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:24:48 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: c. Create a new replies extension element thr:replies href=... type=... hreflang=... title=... count=... when=... / -0.5, it *is* a link

Re: Don't make Feed Extensions inherit!

2006-04-12 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 1:29:00 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-12 13:40]: Reasonable implementations will probably just store the latest versions of feed and entry metadata, something like this: Of course, what they *should* do is use `atom:source` so

Re: Feed Thread Draft Updated

2006-04-12 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 9:20:32 PM, James M Snell wrote: I also added a new warning for implementors: Implementors should note that while the Atom Syndication Format does not forbid the inclusion of namespaced extension attributes on the Atom link element, neither does is explicitly allow

Re: Does xml:base apply to type=html content?

2006-03-31 Thread David Powell
Friday, March 31, 2006, 3:31:12 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: In that scenario, either the tag soup from the other feeds must be fixed up so the view can be rendered as XHTML (which supports xml:base in content) XHTML 1.0 doesn't support xml:base does it? As I understand it, only specs that say

Re: Does xml:base apply to type=html content?

2006-03-31 Thread David Powell
Friday, March 31, 2006, 4:34:48 AM, you wrote: The escaped HTML content contained within the content element that David was originally concerned with is more than likely a copy of all or part of the elements and content contained inside the body tag of the external document referenced by an

Re: Does xml:base apply to type=html content?

2006-03-31 Thread David Powell
Friday, March 31, 2006, 11:02:18 AM, Sean Lyndersay wrote: I haven't looked in detail at how IE does on the xml:base comformance tests, since the current beta has no support for xml:base. In light of that fact, I'm glad we failed outright instead of halfway; halfway would have been weird

Re: Atom Thread Feed syntax

2006-03-24 Thread David Powell
Friday, March 24, 2006, 3:28:02 AM, James Snell wrote: I believe the concern is over the thr:count and thr:when attributes for the replies link relation, both of which are optional, and both of which provide what I consider to be extra information. In other words, it's ok if an

Re: atom:name ... text or html?

2006-03-23 Thread David Powell
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 4:57:11 PM, you wrote: On 24/3/06 3:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: authorname![CDATA[Bertrand Cafeacute;]]/name/author Even if it was HTML you couldn't really use the entity, could you? I think you have to use a character reference or the

Does xml:base apply to type=html content?

2006-03-23 Thread David Powell
xml:base applies to type=xhtml content, but I'm not sure whether it is supposed to apply to escaped type=html content? I reckon that it does. Anybody came across this? Any opinions? -- Dave

Re: Atom Thread Feed syntax

2006-03-23 Thread David Powell
Thursday, March 23, 2006, 9:39:09 PM, James M Snell wrote: Just wanted to follow through on this for everyone. Given that there are vendors getting ready to ship code based on the current rev of the spec, I'm *not* going to rename the id attribute to ref. Yes, I know that id is confusing

Re: Latest IE7 release 'AtomicRSS' output comparison results

2006-03-22 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 5:13:05 AM, M. David Peterson wrote: Hey Folks,   With yesterdays build release of IE7, it seemed appropriate to run a quick inventory check to see where things stand in regards to the derived MS/RSS conversion of a fairly element/attribute usage heavy Atom

Re: Atom syndication schema

2006-03-16 Thread David Powell
Thursday, March 16, 2006, 7:31:08 PM, you wrote: David Powell wrote: Not sure if this is a known bug, but I just noticed that the RelaxNG grammar doesn't accept atomCommonAttributes (eg xml:lang) on the atom:name and atom:uri and atom:email elements used within Person constructs. Did you

Re: Atom syndication schema

2006-03-15 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 3:21:08 AM, Martin Duerst wrote: For atom:uri and atom:email at least, not having xml:lang may be seen as a feature. The spec says that Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:lang attribute. We chose to limit the effects of xml:lang, rather than

Re: Atom syndication schema

2006-03-14 Thread David Powell
Not sure if this is a known bug, but I just noticed that the RelaxNG grammar doesn't accept atomCommonAttributes (eg xml:lang) on the atom:name and atom:uri and atom:email elements used within Person constructs. -- Dave

Re: Feed paging and atom:feed/atom:id

2006-03-10 Thread David Powell
Friday, March 10, 2006, 5:44:21 PM, you wrote: Are linked feeds required to have unique atom:id values? Or, are they required to have the same atom:id values? Thoughts? The history spec frequently uses the phrase the feed in the singular, this implies to me that the id's of the feeds must

Re: IE7 Atom Handling (was RE: Link rel attribute stylesheet)

2006-03-01 Thread David Powell
Hi Sean, I've been testing IE7 beta 2's support for Atom, with the following test feed: http://djpowell.net/atom-test/hardfeed/feed/hard-feed.atom Also here for easier viewing in IE7 http://djpowell.net/atom-test/hardfeed/feed/hard-feed.xml Here are the problems that I have found: 01.

Re: Fwd: [rss-public] Microsoft Feeds API Enclosure Test

2006-02-23 Thread David Powell
Thursday, February 23, 2006, 6:37:50 AM, you wrote: Does someone who has access to an MSFT system care to take a look at this? I have been playing with IE7, and it is interesting to see what happens when you click on a feed and view source. If the feed hasn't been subscribed to, you just

Re: More on atom:id handling

2006-02-01 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 3:20:23 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: [CC'ing atom-syntax] 2006/2/1, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 6:21:12 AM, James M Snell wrote: Entries in an Atom feed can share the same atom:id but their atom:updated values should

Re: atom:content's src and server-driven content negotiation

2006-01-19 Thread David Powell
Thursday, January 19, 2006, 11:17:38 AM, Graham Parks wrote: The correct thing to do is to pick the one provided by default by the server when no content negotiation occurs. eg: content type=image/png href=http://www.example.com/img; / Possibly, but that solution isn't perfect. There is

Re: partial xml in atom:content ?

2006-01-17 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 9:48:22 PM, I wrote: Eg: perhaps the publisher is attempting to send a HTML document that they saved in Word, full of CSS styles, that is intended for printing. [*] [*] Off-topic rant: Let's hope that the user doesn't attempt to publish their document as .mhtml,

Re: partial xml in atom:content ?

2006-01-17 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 8:39:54 PM, James Holderness wrote: This has got nothing to do with second-guessing. Just pretend for a moment that there was no such thing as the xhtml type. Now the question is what is the correct way for an aggregator to display an application/xhtml+xml

Inheritance of atom:rights

2006-01-10 Thread David Powell
From 4.2.10: If an atom:entry element does not contain an atom:rights element, then the atom:rights element of the containing atom:feed element, if present, is considered to apply to the entry. Is there a reason that this paragraph excludes inheritance from atom:source? Section

RE: How to specify multiple alternative encodings of the same content?

2005-11-07 Thread David Powell
Quoting Lindsley Brett-ABL001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have raised this question a few times. The issue is separating the resource from its representation. A single resource (e.g. a football game) may have many representations (audio only, slide show, audio/video, etc.). We would need a more

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-14 Thread David Powell
Monday, September 12, 2005, 5:55:20 PM, James M Snell wrote: I've updated the draft that defines an extension that can be used to indicate that the order of entries within a Feed should be considered significant. How will this interact with the sliding-window/feed-history interpretation

Re: Extensions at the feed level (Was: Re: geolocation in atom:author?)

2005-08-21 Thread David Powell
Sunday, August 21, 2005, 8:46:54 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 7:24 PM +0100 8/21/05, Peter Robinson wrote: I do something similar, intending it to mean the location of the items described by this feed (when there is a single location). Ah, I had missed that. This leads to a question for the

Re: More about Extensions

2005-08-11 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 11:33:46 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 8/10/05, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that it is pretty clear, but as Tim disagrees, I think that this is a good indication that we need clarification. I think it's good indication that you've argued

Re: More about Extensions

2005-08-11 Thread David Powell
I said: I might have misinterpreted your comment, but I'm arguing with Tim for saying that SEE's CAN contain relative refs and no clarifification is needed, and with you for saying that SEE's CANNOT contain relative refs and no clarification is needed. There's a word for that :) I

More about Extensions

2005-08-09 Thread David Powell
I still believe that relative URIs shouldn't exist in Simple Extension constructs [1]. I think that the lack of rationale for their being 2-3 classes of extension construct is proving to be harmful. Prior to the introduction of Section 6, Atom pretty much said you can include any foreign

Re: More about Extensions

2005-08-09 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 11:22:14 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: What are we going to do, outlaw strings that happen to look like relative references? No, we just need to warn publishers (and extension authors) that the base URI of Simple Extension elements is not significant, and that they must

Re: Simple Extensions and xml:base

2005-08-06 Thread David Powell
Quoting Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, but anyone who reads a simple extension out of an Atom feed and finds something they consider to be a relative URI reference, and wants to absolutize the reference, either uses the base URI as established by xml:base, or they are wrong. -Tim

Simple Extensions and xml:base

2005-08-05 Thread David Powell
The intention of Simple Extension Elements is to provide a simple class of extension that is part of the Atom model, and can therefore be preserved end-to-end by implementions via publishing clients, servers, databases, and aggregators. We say that Simple Extension Elements are not language

Re: Proposed changes for format-11

2005-08-01 Thread David Powell
draft-11: This specification does not place any restrictions on what elements may be used as Metadata Extensions, but the RelaxNG grammar explicitly excludes elements in the Atom namespace. The Atom namespace is reserved for future forwards-compatable revisions of Atom. I'm not sure I

Re: Atom namespace, qname-uri-qname roundtripping

2005-07-31 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 4:19:40 PM, you wrote: I see, thanks for the clarification. (I guess atom never intended to allow free -as in speech *and* in beer- data mixing anyway, but another namespace would perhaps have facilitated the inclusion of atom data in existing rdf tools.) I would

Re: Atom namespace, qname-uri-qname roundtripping

2005-07-31 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 4:32:11 PM, Graham wrote: On 31 Jul 2005, at 4:01 pm, James Cerra wrote: That's apparently what libxml does. As you can see, with Atom's namespace it is a mess. It is also a mess with XHTML's namespace, XSLT's namespace, and most document-oriented namespaces.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-31 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 4:47:44 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Strictly speaking, per Extensions To the Atom Vocabulary (sec. 6.2), an Atom processor must treat the nested link as it would treat any other Structured Extension Element (sec. 6.4.2). Only child elements of atom:entry, atom:feed, and

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread David Powell
Saturday, July 30, 2005, 9:55:33 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: link rel=in-reply-to ... link rel=in-reply-to-feed ... / /link I'm not at all keen on extending the link element in this way. Atom Publishing Servers that don't know about this extension that receive an entry containing

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 1:09:44 AM, I wrote: I don't believe that atom:link _isn't_ usefully extensible other than by er, that should be is -- Dave

Re: Atom RDF/OWL models

2005-07-26 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 24, 2005, 9:39:53 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: David Powell's full and fairly verbose RDF schema, again I think it's an Atom-specific vocab : http://djpowell.net/atomrdf/0.1/ Dates from 2005-03-22, covers draft-05. it can be viewed through a nifty little styled-TriX converter:

atom:rights inheritance?

2005-07-23 Thread David Powell
Sorry for the pedantry, but I'm trying to update my Atom/RDF thing, so pedantry is required... The inheritance rules for atom:rights, are different to the ones for atom:author. Is this intentional? Are they supposed to be treated differently? See: If an atom:entry element does not contain

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-19 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 12:44:51 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: You misunderstood what I said. The point is that regardless of how the base URI is determined (whether it is embedded in content or otherwise), it *means* that the content it applies to was actually found at the base URI. It’s not

Re: More while we're waiting discussion

2005-07-13 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 12:29:58 AM, James M Snell wrote: The third is a non-RDF adaptation of the Creative Commons RSS 1.0 Module that uses the Atom link element and provides a machine readable license for entries and feeds. It is described @ http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=184. feed

Media type clarification

2005-07-05 Thread David Powell
It's been raised before [1] [2], but can we clarify whether a MIME type in atom:content etc. can contain parameters or not? MIME is a bit vague about the definition of what a mime type is, and historically applications have been tripped up by unexpected MIME parameters. Can we add something

Re: Roll-up of proposed changes to atompub-format section 5

2005-07-05 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 5:09:40 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 11:58 AM -0400 7/5/05, Bob Wyman wrote: Could we at least put in a sentence that states that including a source element in signed entries is recommended? The implementer's guide would then expand on that with more detail,

Re: Question on Use Case: Choosing atom:content's type when ArchivingMailing Lists

2005-06-19 Thread David Powell
Sunday, June 19, 2005, 5:43:36 AM, Antone Roundy wrote: On Saturday, June 18, 2005, at 06:28 PM, David Powell wrote: Atom 0.3 multiparts forced a dubious and complex processing model on everyone wanting to process Atom documents. This problem was solved by their removal in the 03 to 07

Re: Question on Use Case: Choosing atom:content's type when ArchivingMailing Lists

2005-06-19 Thread David Powell
Sunday, June 19, 2005, 5:07:01 AM, you wrote: The prohibition of composite types in the 08 draft (made many months later) Um, no. One of the drafts reworded the requirement in terms of the new MIME draft. Previously, the draft cited RFC2045's discrete type. From format-03: Failing

Re: Question on Use Case: Choosing atom:content's type when ArchivingMailing Lists

2005-06-18 Thread David Powell
Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:14:38 PM, you wrote: Uh, has Mark spotted a dumb bug here that we should fix? Do we care if *remote* content is of a composite MIME type? My feeling was that we ruled out composite types in *local* content, for fairly obvious reasons. The fix is obvious, in

Re: Question on Use Case: Choosing atom:content's type when ArchivingMailing Lists

2005-06-18 Thread David Powell
Saturday, June 18, 2005, 1:40:52 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Can somebody give me a link to where we discussed the requirement that atom:content MUST NOT contain a composite type? I've tried searching my archive but I couldn't find anything at all. The change was introduced in draft-08. I can't

Re: Question on Use Case: Choosing atom:content's type when ArchivingMailing Lists

2005-06-18 Thread David Powell
Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:14:38 PM, Tim Bray wrote: My feeling was that we ruled out composite types in *local* content [...] I'm still looking, but my suspicion is that we never did rule them out, and that this restriction crept in during some editorial rephrasing. [...] for fairly obvious

Review of Section 6

2005-06-09 Thread David Powell
Apologies for the rubbish timing, but I've been reviewing section 6, and found a number of problems. Firstly, there are some mismatches between the RelaxNG grammar and the specification text. I know that the RelaxNG grammar isn't normative; but this doesn't mean that it can be contradictory:

Re: Review of Section 6

2005-06-09 Thread David Powell
Thursday, June 9, 2005, 5:51:57 PM, Tim Bray wrote: On Jun 9, 2005, at 9:22 AM, David Powell wrote: Firstly, there are some mismatches between the RelaxNG grammar and the specification text. I know that the RelaxNG grammar isn't normative; but this doesn't mean that it can

Re: Review of Section 6

2005-06-09 Thread David Powell
Friday, June 10, 2005, 1:03:41 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: *All* reworking is not acceptable now. [...] There is a large difference between suggesting a bunch of reworking and pointing out specific ambiguities. Please do the latter if you find them. Yes, I understand. In my previous mail

Re: Problem with Metadata Elements (section 6.4)

2005-05-30 Thread David Powell
Quoting Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem come when I use a plain flowed text and can then omit the type attribute: ext:bylineBy Thomas Broyer and al./ext:byline My extension becomes a Simple Extension Element when processed by an Atom Processor, and an Atom Processor having some

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-28 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 5:26:39 PM, you wrote: On 24 May 2005, at 4:07 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: 4.2.9 (editorial): The atom:link element is explicitly described as empty, which violates the rules in 6 for foreign element extension. Remove is an empty element that. That's not an editorial

Re: protocol-04 first reading

2005-05-27 Thread David Powell
Friday, May 27, 2005, 7:18:40 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: On 27/5/05 4:49 PM, Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replace format-08 with protocol-04 and you get it ;o) http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-04.txt except I've been getting format-nn from

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-26 Thread David Powell
Thursday, May 26, 2005, 7:20:23 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: But then 6.3 goes on to explain how to process it. This sounds like a contradiction? No, why? Ok, I'd interpreted ignoring it to be processing it, as opposed to failing. I'll concede that I misinterpreted that. Say I am an Atom

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-26 Thread David Powell
Thursday, May 26, 2005, 11:16:05 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: David Powell wrote: Thursday, May 26, 2005, 8:50:04 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: 6.2 deals with the Atom vocabulary, which is the markup in the Atom namespace or un prefixed attributes on Atom-namespaced elements (this is my

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-25 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 10:04:52 PM, Tim Bray wrote: On May 25, 2005, at 1:40 PM, David Powell wrote: What is section 6.3 unknown foreign markup for? I think the notion of foreign markup exists so that we can write the extremely-important section 6.3, our MustIgnore assertion

Re: Comments about Extensions (1)

2005-05-25 Thread David Powell
Section 6.4: The RNGs in this section require Extension Elements to be in a namespace that isn't the Atom namespace. This requirement is missing from the text. Just a note: This proposal doesn't rehash the extensions -- Atom NS and unprefixed attributes thread [1], because it only applies

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-25 Thread David Powell
Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 10:04:52 PM, Tim Bray wrote: I think the notion of foreign markup exists so that we can write the extremely-important section 6.3, our MustIgnore assertion. The point is, either software knows what to do with an extension and does it, or if not it's not allowed to

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-24 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 9:22:29 AM, Eric Scheid wrote: 4.2.9 The atom:link Element The atom:link element is an empty element that defines a reference from an entry or feed to a Web resource. Subject: Re: extension elements inside link elements? did we want to prevent expressions like

Comments about Extensions (1)

2005-05-24 Thread David Powell
Section 6.4: The RNGs in this section require Extension Elements to be in a namespace that isn't the Atom namespace. This requirement is missing from the text. Proposal Add to section 6.4.1: A Simple Extension Element MUST be namespace-qualified. The element MUST be defined

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-24 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 8:24:16 PM, Graham wrote: On 24 May 2005, at 7:08 pm, David Powell wrote: Whether the draft allowed it or not, atom:link isn't an extension point. That would be Section 6.3 style unknown foreign markup. Unless there's a memo I missed, extensions are a subset

Re: extension elements inside link elements?

2005-05-24 Thread David Powell
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 7:50:13 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: David Powell wrote: Whether the draft allowed it or not, atom:link isn't an extension point. Could you explain why? The following are extension points: * Adding additional metadata to atom:feed by using Section 6.4 Extension

Re: A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-23 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 9:53:23 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: The draft hasn't changed for more than a month, while Tim and Paul have been last-calling this thing for months now, and very little of substance has transpired since then. The document has been quite stable since March 12th, when

Re: Atom 08 - HTML Version

2005-05-23 Thread David Powell
Monday, May 23, 2005, 9:20:07 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: Hi, I will use the HTML version http://ietf.levkowetz.com/tools/rfcmarkup/rfcmarkup.cgi?url=http:// ietf.levkowetz.com/drafts/atompub/format/draft-ietf-atompub- format-08.txt Only the text version is normative, but the editor

Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified

2005-05-23 Thread David Powell
Monday, May 23, 2005, 6:18:53 AM, Roger B wrote: I'm asking you specifically because you seem to be approaching your argument in a reasonable tone and fashion. My apologies if I'm pestering. No apologies required, I welcome any useful criticism. Near as I can tell, folks have modification

Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 2:08:57 AM, Tim Bray wrote: change from a unicode combined char to single + combining diacritic, No. change in paragraph 27 of an article that doesn't show up in a summaries-only feed, No. Dave: In my case, and seemingly in the case of most of the tools

Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 3:36:05 AM, Tim Bray wrote: Summary: David Powell fails to materially address any of the three fatal flaws I pointed out in the notion of atom:modified. I remain firmly at -1. Tim, thanks for taking the time to make specific points discuss this in detail, despite

A sample use-case point-by-point

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
I thought it would be useful to give a use-case for PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified, so that arguments about the validity of the use-case don't get mixed up with arguments about the mechanics of the proposal. The scenario is that an Atom publishing server wishes to allow publishers to

A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
I am concerned that the requirement: atom:feed elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element, UNLESS all of the atom:feed element's child atom:entry elements contain an atom:author element. ...suggests that some sort of inheritance goes on, but such a mechanism isn't obvious and

Re: some small comments on 08

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 10:22:24 AM, you wrote: * 4.1.3.1 The type attribute Can I circumvent the DIV element by using the media type of XHTML? (I really dislike this combined construct by the way.) You can, but you would have to embed a full XHTML document, including html and body elements.

Re: A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 7:04:41 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/22/05, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: comment from Robert in there saying that inheritance needed explaining, but I can't see where this issue was resolved. Oops. Here's the discussion: http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail

Re: A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 7:04:41 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: Besides, no one indicated they were unhappy with that text in WG last call or IETF last call. Sorry, I was too busy reviewing the 23 additional Paces that were proposed during IETF Last-Call to have time to sufficiently review the

Re: A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Sunday, May 22, 2005, 10:25:29 PM, Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/22/05, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the current text is very misleading. The fact that at one point inheritance has been condoned or suggested by previous drafts (including the widely implemented pre-IETF

Re: A different question about atom:author and inheritance

2005-05-22 Thread David Powell
Monday, May 23, 2005, 12:20:21 AM, Bob Wyman wrote: Tim Bray wrote: The intent seems pretty clear; entry-level overrides source-level overrides feed-level, but it seems like we should say that. Anybody think this is anything more than an editorial change? -Tim I believe that this

Re: Refresher on Updated/Modified

2005-05-21 Thread David Powell
Saturday, May 21, 2005, 4:26:13 AM, Roger B. wrote: change from a unicode combined char to single + combining diacritic, No. change in paragraph 27 of an article that doesn't show up in a summaries-only feed, No. Dave: In my case, and seemingly in the case of most of the tools

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