Re: Feedback on 0.3 Format

[Sjoerd Visscher <sjoerd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sam Ruby wrote:
> Let me ask it in the form of a question.  Suppose we have a format which 
> strongly discourages the use of HTML in titles.  Given such a format, 
> suppose I have a desire to express the following title:
>
>   Ode to the <title> tag
>
> By that I mean that I want this to be rendered WITH the less than and 
> greater than tags visible.
>
> How would you recommend that this be expressed?

<title type="text/plain">Ode to the &lt;title&gt; tag</title>

I think when this was discussed first the conclusion was that you can't 
really choose the mode. It's fixed per mime-type:
text/plain -> mode="xml"
text/html -> mode="escaped"
any xml format -> mode="xml"
Other combinations might work, but they just don't make much sense.

The mode attribute is there to make the atom format more discoverable. 
Reading mode="escaped" helps explaining what's going on.

But adding this attribute also gives the idea that you can choose the 
mode. So maybe it's not such a good idea after all.

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Sjoerd Visscher
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