RE: FYI: Making Atom Happen

["Jeremy Gray" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> On Behalf Of Henri Sivonen
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> Subject: Re: FYI: Making Atom Happen

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> Either way, allowing text/html as mode="escaped" instead of requiring 
> XHTML as mode="xml" doesn't quite make sense. From the ideological 
> point of view, it is distasteful. From the practical point of view it 
> introduces yet *another* tag soup format to support. For those who are 
> too incompetent to produce well-formed XHTML, the metaWeblog API and 
> RSS, both of which are used for tag soup transport, already exist. 
> What's the point in introducing yet another tag soup format?

+1