Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 6, 2006, at 2:09 PM, John Dennis wrote: >> As I understand it, any user agent is free to throw on any X-header >> their little heart desires, so that strikes me as a lack of a-priori >> knowledge. > > No problem, silently ignore unknown fields.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:29 PM, emf wrote: > Another approach would be something like: > > To [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... > X-Foo blarg > > I'm not against that. It might sense to use RFC 2822 terminology: To[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ??? I think you do proba

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 13:29 -0400, emf wrote: Pardon my top post, these are all good points Ethan, it's clear you've given it careful thought. > Another approach would be something like: > To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah, that would work too, but it's a little awkward, I like your original idea better

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread emf
John Dennis wrote: > O.K. that makes sense, but I guess it boils down to a design choice. > > 1) Well defined DTD/Schema, but awkward to use in practice. Another approach would be something like: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... X-Foo blarg I'm not against that. > 2) Easy to use, but no standardized

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:24 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: > > --On 6 July 2006 11:30:08 -0400 John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure I understand what the purpose is in treating the extended > > fields differently, it seems like it would overly complicate the xml > > navigation wit

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 July 2006 11:30:08 -0400 John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand what the purpose is in treating the extended > fields differently, it seems like it would overly complicate the xml > navigation without any clear advantage. Anyone who is interested in the > value

Re: [Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread John Dennis
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:55 -0400, emf wrote: > Hans G. Ehrbar wrote: > > If mailman would be able to write an xml representation of > > each message to a separate file, that would be wonderful. > > Then one would be able to use xlst stylesheets to make > > custom archives. > > I've looked into th

[Mailman-Developers] email schemas

2006-07-06 Thread emf
Hans G. Ehrbar wrote: > If mailman would be able to write an xml representation of > each message to a separate file, that would be wonderful. > Then one would be able to use xlst stylesheets to make > custom archives. I've looked into this a bit, and so far have found only a few schema-like thin