- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:02:19 -0500
- To: public-html-xml@w3.org
Feeds (e.g., RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom), are a real-world usage of mixing HTML and XML. Two use cases, exemplified by Planet (Venus|Mars): 1) Taking a feed which was produced by a variety of means ranging from XSLT transforms to hand-coded templates into a single unified DOM which can be sanitized, scanned for relative URIs that need resolving, etc. 2) Taking a DOM and producing a feed which can be consumed by a range of consumers employing everything from "real" XML and HTML5 parsers to a variety of incompatible (tag|beautiful) soup parsers to regular expressions. My best guess is that the general form of the solution to #1 is something like Anne's XML5 proposal though one modified to allow a much larger set of pre-defined entity definitions. My best guess is that the general form of the solution to #2 is an XML serialization which avoids the use of namespace prefixed elements and empty element syntax, and uses well-known prefixes for popular namespaces. - Sam Ruby
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