* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-26 05:35]: > Yes, but MSIE^H^H^H^Hsome xml processors (cough cough) still > inappropriately use comments for that purpose. Then there are > example XML documents (i.e. for tutorials) that sometimes > require comments be preserved. > > > Entities can be flattened. > > Again, as with comments, I agree in principle, but in practice > some processors depend on them.
I do not consider it at all wise to legislate anything in the Atom spec to address these cases. Nothing prevents anyone from writing a generator or pre- or postprocessor for Atom documents to cater to the needs of their particular brand of broken software. Wrangling that particular piece of broken software however is their job; not ours nor the Atom spec’s. Regards, -- Aristotle
