Atom 0.2 feedback

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm drafting a RelaxNG schema for the 0.2 snapshot, which forces you to 
really think about it carefully.

I have a few questions & comments:

1. <url> is wrong.  It should either be human-oriented, in which case 
let's say <web>, or technically correct, in which case let's say <uri>. 
 I could go either way, would marginally prefer <web>

2. Generator; this feels ass-backwards to me:

<generator
  name="Moveable Type">http://www.movabletype.org/?v=2.64</generator>

Having the URI in the attribute and the human stuff in the content seems 
more idiomatic, and respects the prior art of HTML hyperlinks.

3. The 0.2 snapshot is actually less functional than RSS in one 
important respect.  At 'ongoing' I tend to write really long entries. 
With RSS 0.2, I can excerpt them in the RSS feed and still (via the 
horrid escaped-HTML kludge) put hyperlinks and some styling in the 
excerpt.  Since <summary> doesn't allow markup, I can't do any styling 
there, right?  So is it OK to put my teaser in <content>, which does 
allow this, or is the semantic of <content> that the content must be 
complete?  At ongoing, if the <description> in the RSS is *not* the full 
text of the entry, I signal this with a trailing "...".  If we are going 
to allow non-complete <content> elements should this be made explicit 
with a full=(yes|no) attribute?

Put another way, it seems wrong that the ability to style/markup is 
coupled to whether or not you want to provide complete content.
--
Cheers, Tim Bray
        (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)