Re: Serialization and Escape Markup

/ Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
| On 5/16/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
|> / Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org> was heard to say:
|> | We're probably going to need serialization controls for escape markup
|> | too.
|>
|> Uhm, where and why?
|
| If you want to control the method, indentation, and character handling,
| then you'll need serialization parameters.
|
| For example, if I want to take XHTML and make an RSS description
| element (which is escaped HTML), then I need to say the method is
| 'html'.

Man. In a post-Atom world, are the RSS use cases *really* worth the
complexity they're adding to XProc?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:06:43 UTC