Re: Draft proposal: Indirection for <content>

[Janne Jalkanen <Janne.Jalkanen@xxxxxxxxx>]

ext John Panzer wrote:

> Proposal:  The <content> element of <entry> should support a 
> src="..."  attribute.  The value of this attribute is a URL, which 
> points at a location where the actual data for the content may be 
> found.  If a content element has a src attribute, it MUST NOT have 
> inline content; conceptually, the data at the URL provides the 
> complete data for the entry.
+1

This would work well if multipart is seen as evil enough.  It would not 
allow for uploading the metadata together with the binary object, but it 
would at least allow us to get rid of base64 in fairly straightforward 
manner.

/Janne