* Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-22 04:00]: > Basically, what you do is consider the open tag to have a > virtual closure and use it primarily as a carrier of stream > metadata.
Shades of SGML… > You could certainly do that, however, you will inevitably want > to pass across some stream oriented metadata and you'll > eventually realize that much of it is stuff that you can map > into an Atom Feed OT1H, you could put this data in the stream as an empty but complete Atom Feed Document served as the first complete entity in the feed – > A rather nice side effect of forming the stream as an atom feed > is the simple fact that a "log" of the stream can be written to > disk as a well-formed Atom file. – but OTOH this is a pretty good point. Of course, the question is whether it is really any more work to receive an empty Atom Feed Document + X * Atom Entry Documents and to insert the Entry Documents into the Feed Document for storage. Note that in the case of prepending an empty Atom Feed Document, all fully received Documents are well-formed entities of their own, so you don’t need a recovering XML parser that can implement the “virtual closing element” semantic – all entities can be processed with any run-of-the-mill XML parser. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
