Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-20 07:20]: > I took some notes while reading the specification. Not all of > them are good notes, and I was cranky while writing them. Below some comments on your notes; any snipped notes can be assumed to be ones where I agree with your assessment. >

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-20 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
A. Pagaltzis wrote: But the language in RFC3986 does not consider this use case, and the language in the xml:base TR does not address same-document references at all. So there are things possible in the scope of the xml:base TR, for whose behaviour it defers to the RFC, which only considers a sm

Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread Graham
On 20 Jul 2005, at 6:08 am, James Cerra wrote: I feel that HTML entities other than numeric references, >, <, &, ', and "e; should be depreciated in HTML content. Disagree. All it needs is a simple look-up table in the HTML parser. Atom should explicitly endorse XHTML o

Re: Notes on the latest draft - atom:author/atom:uri

2005-07-20 Thread James Cerra
e, > > Section 3.2.2: > > -- > >> The "atom:uri" element's content conveys an IRI associated with the > >> person. Person constructs MAY contain an atom:uri element, but MUST > >> NOT contain more than one. The content of atom:uri in a Person > >> construct MUST be an IRI referen

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-01.txt

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Broyer
This mail has been around in my drafts folder for about 10 days, but here it is... I'm not sure what my position is wrt what I wrote below... Mark Nottingham wrote: On 04/07/2005, at 6:18 PM, Thomas Broyer wrote: With the -01 draft (it might have been the same within the -00 one too),

Re: Notes on the latest draft - xml:base

2005-07-20 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
James Cerra wrote: xml:base is a broken specification. At the simplest, it's just a lame attempt at abbreviating strings. However, it solves that problem in the worst possible manner. As the RDF serializations show, what is needed is a name/value pair simular to entities or xml namespaces.

images and logos

2005-07-20 Thread Henry Story
I have just published a feed for my blog at http://bblfish.net/blog/ blog.atom I use logo and icon tags. Am I using it correctly? I wanted to add logos and icons to each of the entries too, as each entry at http://bblfish.net/blog/ has an associated image and logo. I guess I will have to

Re: Notes on the latest draft - xml:base

2005-07-20 Thread James Cerra
Sjoerd Visscher, > > xml:base is a broken specification. At the simplest, it's just a lame > > attempt at abbreviating strings. However, it solves that problem in the > > worst possible manner. As the RDF serializations show, what is needed is > > a name/value pair simular to entities or xml

Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread James Cerra
Aristotle Pagaltzis, Thanks for the clarifications. > > Section 1.2: > > > > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom > > > > I guess consistancy is not a requirement of the Atom spec. By > > convention, this should be all lowercase. Existing software > > for Atom 0.3 has to be recoded for

Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread James Cerra
Graham, > > I feel that HTML entities other than numeric references, >, > > <, > > &, ', and "e; should be depreciated in HTML > > content. > > Disagree. All it needs is a simple look-up table in the HTML parser. In an XSLT-based Atom-to-XHTML processor, that is a large cos

Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread James M Snell
James Cerra wrote: You might be right but then it should be named atom:homepage. Calling it atom:uri is misleading. It's an arbitrary IRI "associated with the person"... it's most common use will be a link to a homepage but that's not the only use for it. I could use it, for instan

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-01.txt

2005-07-20 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, July 20, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: I was actually wondering why non-stateful feeds couldn't have archives: in the "This month's Top 10 records" feed, why couldn't I link to "Last month's Top 10 records"? If this kind of links are not dealt within feed-history, then I

Re: Notes on the latest draft - xml:base

2005-07-20 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 05:00]: > Sjoerd Visscher, > > That's because it is not an attempt at abbreviating strings, > > but to preserve the meaning of relative URIs, when content is > > used outside of its original context. > > Same thing. You are framing the question in a

Re: Notes on the latest draft - xml:base

2005-07-20 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, July 20, 2005, at 10:22 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James Cerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 05:00]: Sjoerd Visscher, That's because it is not an attempt at abbreviating strings, but to preserve the meaning of relative URIs, when content is used outside of its original context.

Re: Notes on the latest draft.

2005-07-20 Thread Robin Cover
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, James Cerra wrote: > > Aristotle Pagaltzis, > > Thanks for the clarifications. > > > > Section 1.2: > > > > > > > http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom > > > > > > I guess consistancy is not a requirement of the Atom spec. By > > > convention, this should be all lower