On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can think of a couple things. One would be collisions (which Sam > > mentioned). > > I don't understand- maybe I'm looking at the wrong post? > > http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15236.html
Sam is saying that the IETF can't add a new element to the Atom namespace and be sure there would be no collision. > > Another would be that validators couldn't catch typos. > > Validators won't be able to catch typos for optional markup. What do you mean? The extended example in the spec has a generator element. The RNC has caught me adding an attribute called 'url'. Robert Sayre
