Tim Bray wrote:
On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Robert Sayre wrote:
I think David's issue with xml:lang concerns mapping Atom entries to, say, an RDBMS. I think he feels it will be challenging to store with that requirement. For instance, what does it mean to include an xml:lang declaration on atom:updated?
Clearly, it means nothing, and such an occurrence can safely be ignored or discarded. What am I missing? -Tim
Let's say I use an Atom protocol client to PUT an entry that has an xml:lang attribute. Is it ok for the server to respond with a 204 if drops the xml:lang declaration? After all, that's exactly not what I PUT there.
I think David is asking for the spec to declare when xml:lang can be "safely ignored and discarded". Put another way, where is it part of the Atom model.
Robert Sayre
