Re: Sam's Atom presentation

[James Robertson <jarober@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:51 AM 12/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:

> Danny Ayers wrote:
> > Thanks Graham.
> > Sam - what a lot of slides!
> > A few remarks:
> > Slide 8:
> > "Contrary to what some would have you believe, pretty much all of these
> > ambiguities apply to all RSS versions."
> > Do you have a couple of quick examples?
>
> 1) What does the following mean?  How should it be rendered?
>
>   <title>An in depth discussion of HTML &lt;br&gt; tags</title>


simple.  tags get stripped, so it renders without the escaped tags.


> 2) I write a summary, S, of an article, A, and post it on my weblog. Which 
> should I put in my feed:
>
>   <link>S</link>
>   <link>A</link>

that's not a spec item, that's an "up to the writer" problem.  Spec simply 
cannot solve that, and thinking it can is silly.  You can do what Swaine 
does, and always have link point at A, or what a lot of people do, and 
place a link to A in the summary.

Gosh, why is this hard?


> 3) What would be the full url for the image below be?
>
>   <content:encoded>
>     &lt;img src="../images/picture.jpg"&gt;
>   </content:encoded>

and using xml:base won't solve that.  Why not?  Because then we'll have 
issues where relative links don't conform to the base url exactly.  The 
world is full of ambiguities; deal with that simple fact and move on...


> - Sam Ruby

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