- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 10:15:44 -0500
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: public-html-xml@w3.org
Henri Sivonen scripsit: > Now, if someone really wants to put arbitrary XML in a feed item > description, that person should use Atom since RSS 2.0 doesn't support > arbitrary XML descriptions. But there's no guarantee that anyone > cares to write feed consumers that do anything useful with non-Web > vocabulary Atom descriptions, so the pragmatic answer is to transform > the XML vocabulary into (X)HTML/SVG/MathML for publication. Google Data feeds are Atom, and they definitely contain non-HTML; indeed, except for Blogger I can't think of a single one that contains any HTML at all. Granted that data is not a typical use for Atom, it's not unheard-of either. LexisNexis is also using Atom for both data and documents, both of which are in plain XML. (Claimer: I used to work on one, and I'm now working on the other.) -- If you have ever wondered if you are in hell, John Cowan it has been said, then you are on a well-traveled http://www.ccil.org/~cowan road of spiritual inquiry. If you are absolutely cowan@ccil.org sure you are in hell, however, then you must be on the Cross Bronx Expressway. --Alan Feuer, NYTimes, 2002-09-20
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