--On Tuesday, January 25, 2005 04:21:29 PM -0500 Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's required for interop over HTTP. That's off-topic in the format draft, which mentions HTTP once, in passing.
So you suggest that we have additional format requirements in the protocol spec?
The headers-ueber-alles rule in HTTP means that a legal Atom feed can become illegal when served as text/xml. That is going to suprise people and cause breakage.
How about something along the wording of the XML spec's section 4.3.3:
In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is an error for ...
Perhaps:
An external transport protocol (e.g. HTTP with text/xml content-type) may force the document to be decoded as US-ASCII. In that case ...
wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect Verity Ultraseek
