Re: AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-11

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx>]

* Lisa Dusseault <ldusseault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-12-16 02:15]:
> Since clients post Atom entries and other clients retrieve
> them, it seemed reasonable to want to extend Atom
> client-to-client. If I used "AtomFu" client that was able to
> annotate my entries automatically with what music I was
> listening to (track name, album and artist in XML elements)
> while I wrote a blog posting, I thought AtomFu should just
> store that as XML markup in the entry.

That is, IMO, a misconception about Atom – one that is frequently
seen. We just had a similar discussion tonight in #atom on the
Freenode IRC network. The track name, album and artist are data;
they should be part of the payload of an entry, not part of its
envelope. In practice, that means you use either microformats or
a more structured format than HTML. Extending the Atom envelope
is a strategy of last resort.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>