Re: Current and permalink link rel values

2007-02-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Elliotte Harold wrote: By the way, http://www.iana.org/assignments/relation/ is 404. This is referenced in the Atom 1.0 spec. It doesn't really need to be resolved, but it would be nice to put something there. Interesting. http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations.html is the right

Re: Quoting type parameter value allowed? - Was: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-typeparam-00.txt

2007-01-21 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Andreas Sewe wrote: This raises the question, however, whether it would be worth pointing out in the I-D that quoting a parameter value is allowed. Implementors might otherwise produce code that does treat application/atom+xml;type=feed and application/atom+xml;type=feed as different.

Re: Quoting type parameter value allowed? - Was: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-atompub-typeparam-00.txt

2007-01-19 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Andreas Sewe wrote: While RFC 2045 specifically allows quoted parameter values and defines application/atom+xml;type=feed to be equivalent to application/atom+xml;type=feed, RFC 4288 states that '[t]here is no defined syntax for parameter values. Therefore registrations MUST specify

Re: Fwd: Atom format interpretation question

2007-01-05 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Bob Wyman wrote: Did the +xml convention ever get formalized in some RFC? I know we all *think* that tacking +xml onto the end of something means that it is some use of XML, however, if I remember correctly, this little bit of syntax has never actually been formalized... Or have I missed

Re: Atom Syndication Format To Draft Standard?

2006-10-02 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Robert Sayre wrote: I think we should move the format to Draft Standard by clearing up any errata and adding two attributes: 'dir' and 'unicode-bidi', as defined in XHTML. Thoughts? I think that XHTML does not define an 'unicode-bidi' attribute. Do you mean, for 'unicode-bidi', as defined

Re: Atom license link last call

2006-08-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* James M Snell wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-license-06.txt I do not understand section 4, it says the security considerations of RFC 4287 apply; the only consideration there that could apply is that IRIs are used, and as such considerations of RFC 3987

Re: Atom license link last call

2006-08-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* James M Snell wrote: Another concern that was raised to me by a colleague is that the license resource being pointed to could change over time, meaning that the license being referenced today may not be the same license being used tomorrow even tho URIs may be exactly the same. If the license

Re: Datatype for IRIs in RELAX NG

2006-03-21 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Martin Duerst wrote: At 02:30 06/03/20, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: In Schema 1.1 it is not possible for a xsd:string to be no xsd:anyURI. Can you explain? It seems you are saying that all xsd:strings are also xsd:anyURIs, but that seems going a bit too far. Yes, that's exactly what the XML

Re: Datatype for IRIs in RELAX NG

2006-03-19 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Elliotte Harold wrote: I would recommend against using xsd:anyURI for IRIs. A URI is much more restrictive than an IRI, and one of the easiest things for a schema validator to check about an xsd:anyURI is that it only contains URI-legal ASCII characters. I think a new type is necessary if

Re: Atom syndication schema

2006-03-17 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Martin Duerst wrote: When looking with a microscope, you will find some little differences, because xs:anyURI was described before the IRI spec (RFC 3987) was approved. These differences are: 1) xs:aryURI also allows spaces and a few other ASCII characters that are not allowed in URIs nor

Re: If you want Fat Pings just use Atom!

2005-08-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tim Bray wrote: That's a bit misleading, a fatal error just means that the XML processor must report the error to the application and that the processor is not required by the XML specification to continue processing; doing so is however an optional feature and further processing would be

Re: If you want Fat Pings just use Atom!

2005-08-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Graham wrote: the XML processor must report the error to the application and that the processor is not required by the XML specification to continue processing; doing so is however an optional feature and further processing would be implementation-defined vs Once a fatal error is detected,

Re: If you want Fat Pings just use Atom!

2005-08-22 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tim Bray wrote: If you encounter a busted tag on the Nth entry, per the XML spec that's a fatal error and you can't process any more. That's a bit misleading, a fatal error just means that the XML processor must report the error to the application and that the processor is not required by

Re: Where's the Registry of Link Relations?

2005-08-18 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Robert Sayre wrote: Anyone seen it or know where it will be found? The IANA registry? It will be created some time between now and the publication of the RFC. Same goes for the Atom media type and any other pending IANA actions. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ·

Re: xml:base abuse

2005-08-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Sjoerd Visscher wrote: A while ago we had a discussion about how xml:base should be used. We didn't reach a conclusion, but I think we need to act. How to use xml:base is a matter of the xml:base specification and (less so) the resource identifier specifications. If you think xml:base is

Re: xml:base abuse

2005-08-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Sjoerd Visscher wrote: It would be really cool if you would move the xml:base of the entry to the div, but as you have 2 divs per entry I can imagine you don't want to do that. Or you could change the base URI to f.e. When/200x/2005/08/14/Java-Net-Terms.atom (even if that doesn't

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tim Bray wrote: Implementors are advised that there is a common class of error in [...] Sorry but this is ridiculous; if we say X MUST Y even though we know that many X won't Y we are abusing RFC 2119 terminology and make it much more difficult to evangelize 100% compliance, since this

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Paul Hoffman wrote: You can't compare an IRI with a non-IRI. So, if you are handed an non-IRI (as in, an IRI-looking string that has whitespace around it), should you fail immediately or try harder? I propose trying harder, but I am open to just fail. Well, if we expect that many content

Re: spec bug: can we fix for draft-11?

2005-08-02 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Dave Pawson wrote: Even if we decide that whitespace is not significant, I do believe that having the feedvalidator issue a warning in such cases is appropriate. +1 What is the IETF version of an errata sheet? Is that the right place to tackle this? For RFCs see

Re: Atom 1.0 xml:base/URI funnies

2005-07-17 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Sjoerd Visscher wrote: And that's why you can't use it as a reference to your site. That depends a bit on same-document reference processing of Atom processors. If the Atom processor assumes the link refers to some web site and passes the absolute reference to some other user agent there would

White-space

2005-07-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
Hi, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-10.txt refers to white-space a couple of times but does not define this term. The exact definition is important to know for 4.1.3.3 item 6 and I would like to avoid to /assume/ that this means any number of U+0020, U+0009,

Re: Evangelism, etc.

2005-07-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* A. Pagaltzis wrote: I like both versions for different reasons. Thanks, of course, for providing a HTML rendition – I, too, have to say I find the ASCII versions very 1989. (I use rfc.net to read RFCs so there is at least a modicum of formatting and actual, you know, links.) There is

Re: The Atomic age

2005-07-15 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Dan Brickley wrote: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/samples/atom/a1.xml `Content-Type: text/xml; qs=0.9`. Hurray... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim ·

Section 8 should refer to 5

2005-07-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
Hi, I think it would be helpful if section 8 (Security Considerations) of the latest draft includes a reference to section 5 Securing Atom Documents. regards, -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 ·

Re: The Atom namespace, etc.

2005-07-14 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Paul Hoffman wrote: This is rarely done in RFCs. Further, Section 5 is clearly listed in the table of contents, and someone who intends to implement the protocol probably has at least skimmed the document before they read the details in the Security Considerations section. Well, I think the

Re: RNG validators capable of fully using the Atom schema?

2005-07-12 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Henri Sivonen wrote: I'm wondering which validator was used for testing the Atom RNG+Schematron schema. Which validators support Compact Syntax with embedded Schematron? I am particularly interested in Java solutions. http://www.topologi.com/products/validator/ is said to support it. --

Re: What is a media type?

2005-04-13 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* David Powell wrote: I'm asking this because I really don't know whether parameters are supposed to be allowed in the type attribute or not. http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg08283.html -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 ·

Re: s/url/web/

2005-03-18 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tim Bray wrote: There are a couple of places where we use uri in the markup, specifically the atom:uri element (3.2.2) and the uri attribute of atom:generator (4.2.5). In both cases they're not actually URIs, they're IRIs, so the name is WRONG, except for nobody knows what an IRI is so

Re: s/url/web/

2005-03-18 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Dan Brickley wrote: In both cases they're not actually URIs, they're IRIs, so the name is WRONG, except for nobody knows what an IRI is so renaming them iri would be confusing, and anyhow everyone thinks of URLs not *RIs, but naming them url would be wrong too, so why don't we actually

Re: s/url/web/

2005-03-18 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Dan Brickley wrote: I think the question is which of these is meant by the web: I encourage Atom to follow the WebArch REC, let's call it (d), http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#intro [[ The World Wide Web (WWW, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as

Re: xsd:dateTime vs. RFC 3339

2005-02-05 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Tim Bray wrote: I tend to agree as well; in this case, the fact that this is an XML vocabulary is probably more relevant than the fact that it's an IETF RFC. So can we please have a Pace to call out to XSD? I'm pretty sure that implementors would just use the libraries and The Right Thing

Re: Call for final Paces for consideration: deadline imminent

2005-02-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Paul Hoffman wrote: Although I can't find it specified in the current draft, there used to be a rule that you weren't supposed to use the same atom:id more than once in a single feed. The current draft says: 5.8 atom:id Element The atom:id element is an Identity construct that

Re: Posted PaceTextRules

2005-02-01 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Martin Duerst wrote: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#xmlspace cites a quite different opinion on this matter... Yes, well that opinion is (a) specific to HTML and (b) wrong. I'm amazed that the W3C allowed that to be published. -Tim Would you mind explaining why you think

Re: atom:info [was Re: Comments on format-05]

2005-01-31 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Robert Sayre wrote: If I tell NetNewsWire to GET something in the subscribe dialog, my dispatching instructions are clear. Everything is a feed. Making up rules for application/xml, text/xml, and application/octet-stream will require superceding some RFCs that I'd rather not mess with. What

Re: PaceIRI status

2005-01-25 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Julian Reschke wrote: The big difference here is that XMLNS uses IRIs/URIs as identifiers and only for that. However, what is an XSLT that transforms Atom content to HTML supposed to do when it encounters a IRI which isn't a legal URI? http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method

Re: PaceIRI status

2005-01-25 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Julian Reschke wrote: The big difference here is that XMLNS uses IRIs/URIs as identifiers and only for that. However, what is an XSLT that transforms Atom content to HTML supposed to do when it encounters a IRI which isn't a legal URI? http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method

Re: PaceMustBeWellFormed status

2005-01-25 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Robert Sayre wrote: I'm very -1 on this, since it makes the definition of the Atom format an HTTP message, rather than an XML document. It seems common practise to include requirements for implementations of a format into the specification of the format. Why should these be kept separate? In

Re: PaceAttributesNamespace (was Re: AtomAsRDF_PaceAttributesNS)

2005-01-24 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Danny Ayers wrote: To be inserted: {{{ Section 2. Atom Documents Atom processors MAY interpret unprefixed attribute names as their namespace-qualified equivalents. If they do, then all Atom attribute names MUST appear in the Atom namespace. }}} This does not make much sense to me, it is

Re: PaceSimpleLanguageTagging status

2005-01-24 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Martin Duerst wrote: Not yet taken up by the WG, depends on the discussion that comes with this call. Same rules as all the others: there has to be a positive WG consensus that each adds to the base specification. -Tim +1, at least for atom:language inside the header. For elements,

Re: Work Queue Rotation #13

2004-11-23 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Antone Roundy wrote: The difference is that we (at least some of us) don't want atom:link used for things like this: link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=/stylesheets/menu.css We want it used only for links that are meant to be activated by the user and result in visiting the resource. I