RE: Atom Bidi Draft Last Call

["Brian Smith" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicolas Krebs wrote:
> James Snell wrote:
> >The Atom Bidi draft [1] has entered last call.  I posted an updated 
> >version of the draft today indicating "Experimental" status 
> > rather than "Standards Track".  The draft is currently implemented
> > by Apache Abdera and the Lotus Connections Blogs component.
> > Additional implementation and feedback are requested.

James,

Do you know of any publically-available Atom documents in BIDI languages
that would benefit from this extension? The example in the draft does
not seem to benefit from the extension; AFAICT, the text in the examples
is comprised of pure Arabic text, which is strongly RTL, so the Unicode
BIDI algorithm should work fine. I searched for some before, and I found
a few Hebrew and one Arabic Atom document, but none of them would have
benefited from this extension, AFAICT.

> Editorial comments. You could add 
> - http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/#directionality as 
> informative references, in Section 5.2 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-atompub-bidi-06#section-5.2
> - Why create atom:dir instead of re-use its:dir (in a 
> Rationale section). 
> - What are the differences between atom:dir and its:dir . 

I agree, these are the first questions I had when reading the previous
drafts.

The draft says 'Implementers are reminded that unexpected results could
occur when using both the "dir" attribute and the Unicode control
characters within a single document.' What are the expected results?

Regards,
Brian