On 5/16/05, Bill de hÓra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The spec allows anyone to add stuff to the Atom namespace, so the IETF > > will have to read everyone's documents before they add something to > > the Atom namespace. > > The spec does no such thing; that's a psychotic interpretation at best.
What? If the spec doesn't ban it, it allows it. Why shouldn't we do what Julian's DAV spec did? [0] > If people are going to add stuff to the Atom namespace, then they're > going to add stuff to the Atom namespace, irrespective of what the spec > says. Your options are to live with that or enforce the building of > machinery that will reject the markup of people who do it. To build that > machinery you'll have to have an ability to proof-check the markup. To > proof-check the markup you have to have to ensure its legal names and > their combinations can be enumerated at design time - at a minimum. I am actually fine with going this route, but we should get rid of the syntactic constraints on link @rel if we're going to have a dictionary free-for-all in element names. What's the point, really. Robert Sayre [0] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15255.html
