Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 3:07 PM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thr:in-reply-to id=urn:foo:1 type=application/atom+xml src=http://www.example.com/atom; / how about this instead link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml

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: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-05 07:15]: Does this work or do I need to be taken out and flogged again? Absolutely that does work for me. (Sorry for the curt reply – I am off to catch a plane in a few minutes and won’t have ’net for a week. Tried to get this out before I am gone.

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-05 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: I'll also note that this requirement has basically zero value for a desktop aggragator. I have only written three or four Atom parsers, but I think the approach that has the best mix of performance and correctness is one where SAX events are treated as input events for a

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml thread:idref=urn:foo:1 / this way processors that have a basic understanding of what a link is can still do something useful.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 9:55 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, consider link rel=ultimate-source-of-all-evil-STAY-AWAY href=http://example.org/evil; / What useful thing is there that software could sanely do, knowing only that something is a link? -Tim not knowing what that particular

Re: Simple Extensions and xml:base

2005-08-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Aug 5, 2005, at 5:59 AM, David Powell wrote: We say that Simple Extension Elements are not language sensitive, but They *are* affected by xml:base. xml:base establishes the base URI for wherever it's in-scope, with a specific callout to RFC3986 for the semantics. Anytime you see

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-05 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-05 14:05]: Uh, anyone who's lazily concatenating strings is pretty soon going to end up with a free ampersand or something worse in their Atom feed. Right? I think that’s a bit grand of a generalization. It’s not hard to build XML by concatening strings,

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-05 Thread Bill de hÓra
Robert Sayre wrote: On 8/5/05, Bill de hÓra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're going to recommend ignoring it in practice, why not recommend throwing it out? Why equivocate? You keep saying equivocate, as if there were some hard-to-swallow truth I'm avoiding. I've said it twice; don't

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-05 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: I suggest simply the following: in 4.2.6 (The atom:id Element), change Its content MUST be an IRI, as defined by [RFC3987]. to read: Its content MUST be an IRI, as defined by [RFC3987], and MUST NOT contain any whitespace. It doesn’t change anything, it just

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 7:48 PM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml thread:idref=urn:foo:1 / this way processors that have a basic understanding of what a link is can still do

Two Proposed Resolutions for whitespace handling.

2005-08-05 Thread Robert Sayre
In Section 2, paragraph 5, Both kinds of Atom Documents are specified in terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] and identified with the application/atom+xml media type. Atom Documents MUST be well-formed XML. This specification does not

Re: Two Proposed Resolutions for whitespace handling.

2005-08-05 Thread James M Snell
Robert Sayre wrote: In Section 2, paragraph 5, Both kinds of Atom Documents are specified in terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] and identified with the application/atom+xml media type. Atom Documents MUST be well-formed XML. This

Re: Two Proposed Resolutions for whitespace handling.

2005-08-05 Thread James Aylett
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:04:03PM -0400, Robert Sayre wrote: 1.) Atom processors MAY consider leading and trailing whitespace in element and attribute values to be significant. 2.) In attribute values and elements containing text, leading and trailing whitespace is considered significant.