- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:44:27 +0100
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
On 21/03/2013 15:38 , Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > There's every chance I'm mistaken in this, in which case I apologize. My > recollection of ATOM is that it is an RSS-like format that is required > to be well formed XML. If that recollection is wrong, then my comment > makes no sense. > > My understanding is that it's often useful to include in ATOM feeds > fragments of HTML "snipped" from the blogs, etc. that are being > summarized. My assumption was that there might be a need for the blogs > themselves to be served text/html, but for the snippets in ATOM to be, > essentially, XHTML fragments. One way (not the only way) to achieve this > would be to restrict at least the "snippable" parts of the blog to > polyglot. Atom has type="html" precisely for this purpose. It basically requires its content to be escaped. Perhaps not a solution of jaw-dropping elegance, but in practice it is easier to just escape than to provide an alternative serialisation of the same content. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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