Re: Serialization and Escape Markup

On 5/23/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / 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?

I'd like to think that way but RSS is still more popular than Atom. :)

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:08:18 UTC