Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Martin Duerst
Hello Sam, others, At 22:33 05/05/09, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> "Martin" == Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Martin> At 17:29 05/05/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: >>> On May 4, 2005, at 04:39, Martin Duerst wrote: >>>> For free-flowing text, however, the line breaks in the sour

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 2:14 PM -0400 5/10/05, Sam Hartman wrote: Except that we try to build deployable protocols. If there aren't content creation tools that can do the right thing then it becomes a deployment issue for atompub. True. Fortunately, there have been plenty of text editing tools that work with the "no

RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Hollenbeck
> A perfectly reasonable response would be that you've thought about and > understood the problem and there are sufficient tools available that > can work with your proposed pipe that you don't need to care about the > issue. Paul described text that's in the document to describe what MAY be done

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Scott" == Scott Hollenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >I'm not asking for a lot of text; probably something about as >> long as >this message. >> >> I believe that it can be a lot shorter: given the rationale >> above, it's not a problem for Atompub or any other XM

RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:16 AM -0700 5/10/05, Walter Underwood wrote: If publishers and subscribers have obstacles to using Atom, that sounds like a problem to me. It is a problem, of course. "Everyone has this problem" is not a good reason to ignore it. No one is ignoring it. This thread started because the format dr

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 10, 2005, at 18:16, Walter Underwood wrote: "Everyone has this problem" is not a good reason to ignore it. Someone has to be the first to solve it, might as well be us. It is not acceptable to build formats for the "English Wide Web". That doesn't exist any more. I believe the problem shou

RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Hollenbeck
> -Original Message- > From: Walter Underwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:16 AM > To: Scott Hollenbeck; 'Paul Hoffman'; iesg@ietf.org; 'Atom WG' > Subject: RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to >

RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Walter Underwood
--On May 10, 2005 8:57:47 AM -0400 Scott Hollenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to agree with Paul. I don't believe that the issue of white space in > the syndicated content is really an Atompub issue. It might be an issue for > the content creator. It might be an issue for the reader

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Graham
On 8 May 2005, at 4:30 am, Walter Underwood wrote: White space is not particularly meaningful in some of these languages, so we cannot expect them to suddenly pay attention to that just so they can use Atom. There will be plenty of content from other formats with this linguistically meaningless whi

RE: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Hollenbeck
> >I'm not asking for a lot of text; probably something about as long as > >this message. > > I believe that it can be a lot shorter: given the rationale above, > it's not a problem for Atompub or any other XML-using protocol. For > that matter, it's not really and XML problem at all: it affect

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread fantasai
Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 8, 2005, at 06:30, Walter Underwood wrote: White space is not particularly meaningful in some of these languages, so we cannot expect them to suddenly pay attention to that just so they can use Atom. Why not? We expect them not no insert other random characters there. W

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:33 AM -0400 5/9/05, Sam Hartman wrote: My personal opinion as someone who is very shortly going to have to evaluate the atom specification is that you've identified an issue (space and line breaking) for some languages that should be considered. Your proposed solution seems highly undesirable

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/9/05, Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least based on the discussion the IESG has been copied on, it > doesn't sound like the working group has fully considered this issue. > The responses have more of the character of those found from people > trying to brush aside an issue than o

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Martin" == Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> At 17:29 05/05/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On May 4, 2005, at 04:39, Martin Duerst wrote: >>> For free-flowing text, however, the line breaks in the source >>> and those in the display are not (necessarily) the s

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Thomas Broyer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-03 19:35]: This means type="text" content is a single paragraph of text. If you need paragraphs, lists or any other "structural formatting", you have to use type="html" or type="xhtml" with the appropriate content. Or type="text/plai

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 8, 2005, at 09:38, Martin Duerst wrote: Why would you put line breaks in the CJK source, then? Isn't the "problem" solved with the least heuristics by the producer not putting breaks there? People in China, Japan, and so on (Korean uses spaces, so it's not CJK) tend to use similar tools t

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Duerst
At 17:29 05/05/07, Henri Sivonen wrote: > >On May 4, 2005, at 04:39, Martin Duerst wrote: > >> For free-flowing text, however, the line breaks in the source and those in >> the display are not (necessarily) the same, and so linebreaks have to be >> changed to spaces for Western languages, but to no

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-08 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 8, 2005, at 06:30, Walter Underwood wrote: White space is not particularly meaningful in some of these languages, so we cannot expect them to suddenly pay attention to that just so they can use Atom. Why not? We expect them not no insert other random characters there. What do the same produ

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-07 Thread Walter Underwood
--On May 7, 2005 11:29:07 AM +0300 Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why would you put line breaks in the CJK source, then? Isn't the "problem" > solved with the least heuristics by the producer not putting breaks there? It would be even better if they would just speak English. :-) Wh

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-07 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 4, 2005, at 04:39, Martin Duerst wrote: For free-flowing text, however, the line breaks in the source and those in the display are not (necessarily) the same, and so linebreaks have to be changed to spaces for Western languages, but to nothing for Chinese/Japanese (and most possibly to a

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-06 Thread Martin Duerst
At 04:32 05/05/04, Graham wrote: > >On 28 Apr 2005, at 7:33 pm, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > >> Ok, maybe it is just me, but what does it mean to "collapse white- space"? Does this mean to replace FWS (in RFC 2822 sense) with a >> single space? > >Since the statement is a MAY, I don't think any exact

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-06 Thread Martin Duerst
At 02:27 05/05/04, Thomas Broyer wrote: > >Martin Duerst wrote: >> At 03:33 05/04/29, Alexey Melnikov wrote: >> > > If the value is "text", the content of the Text construct MUST NOT >> > > contain child elements. Such text is intended to be presented to >> > > humans in a readable fashio

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-05 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-03 19:35]: > This means type="text" content is a single paragraph of text. > If you need paragraphs, lists or any other "structural > formatting", you have to use type="html" or type="xhtml" with > the appropriate content. Or type="text/plain", Iâd ass

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-04 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 4, 2005, at 12:05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: On Apr 29, 2005, at 12:17, Martin Duerst wrote: Making this more precise is definitely desirable. But there is also an i18n issue: This works fine for languages that use spaces between words. It doesn't work for languages that

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-03 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Apr 29, 2005, at 12:17, Martin Duerst wrote: Making this more precise is definitely desirable. But there is also an i18n issue: This works fine for languages that use spaces between words. It doesn't work for languages that don't have spaces between words (Chinese, Japanese, Thai,...). If Text e

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-03 Thread Graham
On 28 Apr 2005, at 7:33 pm, Alexey Melnikov wrote: Ok, maybe it is just me, but what does it mean to "collapse white- space"? Does this mean to replace FWS (in RFC 2822 sense) with a single space? Since the statement is a MAY, I don't think any exact meaning is necessary. It's simply a hint to

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-03 Thread Thomas Broyer
Martin Duerst wrote: At 03:33 05/04/29, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > If the value is "text", the content of the Text construct MUST NOT > > contain child elements. Such text is intended to be presented to > > humans in a readable fashion. Thus, Atom Processors MAY collapse > > white-spa

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-03 Thread Robert Sayre
On 4/29/05, Martin Duerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:33 05/04/29, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > > >Ok, maybe it is just me, but what does it mean to "collapse white-space"? > Does this mean to replace FWS (in RFC 2822 sense) with a single space? > > Making this more precise is definitely d

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-05-03 Thread Martin Duerst
At 03:33 05/04/29, Alexey Melnikov wrote: >>The file can be obtained via >>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-08.txt > >3.1.1.1 Text > > If the value is "text", the content of the Text construct MUST NOT > > contain child elements. Such text is intended to be presen

Re: Last Call: 'The Atom Syndication Format' to Proposed Standard

2005-04-28 Thread Alexey Melnikov
The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Atom Publishing Format and Protocol WG to consider the following document: - 'The Atom Syndication Format ' as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Plea