- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:22:43 -0700
- To: asbjorn@ulsberg.no
- Cc: raman@google.com, lholst@students.cs.uu.nl, public-html@w3.org
Atom handles the present situation just fine in a couple of senses: You can html-escape the markup when including it e.g. <content><p> ...</content and the Atom stream remains valid -- but I assert that such html is not very useful since it becomes essentially opaque to anything processing the Atom feed. At present, many Atom feeds on the Web are broken because of HTML that has been dropped into the Atom feed -- this is equally true of both RSS and Atom feeds. The breakage is mostly at the seams where XML and html come together -- so this also affects inclusion of HTML in SMIL Asbjørn Ulsberg writes: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:44:11 +0200, T.V Raman <raman@google.com> wrote: > > > As a specific example, we need to address what should happen > > when HTML content is brought into XML vocabularies like RSS and > > ATOM --- the present situation is extremely messy. > > I agree that this needs to be addressed, but I'm not sure I agree that the > present situation is extremely messy in the case of Atom. Atom defines > pretty clearly what to do and not to do about embedded languages; both XML > and non-XML based ones. > > However, since (X)HTML isn't designed to be included in other languages, > it's a bit awkward since one can't begin to describe "valid" content in > such contexts, since a DTD is missing and the only content present in an > <atom:content> element is what you can put inside a (X)HTML <body> element. > > Addressing this particular issue is something we need to do, but other > than that, I think Atom handles the current state of affairs just fine. If > you disagree, please elaborate. > > -- > Asbjørn Ulsberg -=|=- asbjorn@ulsberg.no > «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away» -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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