Re: extension of markdown files

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20 November 2012 12:45, Shane McCarron <ahby@aptest.com> wrote:
> > I actually think that extensions are usually NOT in scope.  However, if
> you
> > don't think there should be a media type, an extension is an obvious
> > announcement mechanism.  Without at least one of these, it is hard for a
> > generic processor to decide how to handle the content.  You would have to
> > 'open the envelope' and inspect / sniff.  Do-able, but not great.
>
> Perhaps it's just me that is old fashioned. When I want to convert
> from md to html
> I call up perl to do the job.
>

Yep - so do I.


>
> I really don't think a processing chain is within spec for the group
> Shane? Do you?
>

No.  I was just saying that we could define one for our own internal use if
we wanted to author the spec in MD but still produce W3C-appropriate
(X)HTML output.

-- 
Shane P. McCarron
Managing Director, Applied Testing and Technology, Inc.