Re: Atom 0.2 feedback

[Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon Willison wrote:
> Personally I would like to see Atom "launch" with a healthy collection 
> of pre-written libraries for a whole bunch of different languages - I 
> would be happy to contribute a PHP one for example. In fact, with that 
> in mind it might be worth coming up with an informal API standard that 
> can be replicated in the different libraries that are released (although 
> obviously such a thing would be completely optional).

If you have a spare moment or three, something that might be worth 
considering: take a look at the Python and XSLT implementations on the 
following page: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/ExtensibilityFramework

The framework implementation that you end up with is likely to be more 
general than the specific grammar that we come up with (does one really 
need to have markup in dates?), but should be able to handle any extension.

If you do come up with something interesting, drop a link in the wiki.

- Sam Ruby