[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Atom 0.2 feedback


Sam Ruby wrote:

Looking at the feed [1] that Tim produced, it is clear that the restriction that only content can have markup will result in people mislabeling their summaries as content.

In the case of 'ongoing', the thing labeled <content> is in fact content, it's always the first paragraph, and in the case where the entry has only one paragraph it's the whole entry. But I grant that it would have been more in the spirit of the spec if I had removed all the markup and used <summary> instead.

So what are some solutions?

1. allow markup in <summary>.  Does this require that we support mode=
   as with content?  Alternatively support a small subset of XHTML?
   Both seem ugly.

2. allow a 3-way switch on <content>
   <content which="full|lead|summary">.

3. Migrate the <summary> *inside* the <content>.  Something like
   <content><summary>... no markup here ...</summary>
   <body full="true|false"> ... </body>.  Then you could have the
   mode="xml|escaped|base64" on <content> apply to both <summary>
   and <body>

Off the top, I like #3.

Sam's right, it's pretty clear that people who've gotten used to nicely-decorated feeds aren't going to be happy to step backward to plain-text. -Tim