Re: [syndication] Re: Question about tags withen tags

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

This is interesting to me because it is another aspect of a problem
I've run into a lot lately; markup that is processed by an
intermediary (of some form) and then emitted for further processing
by another device, using namespaces for dispatch.

An alternative, to-me intuitive solution is to use namespaces, as in
  <rss:title><html:i>italic</html:i> in the title</rss:title>
so that the rss namespace is dispatched to the intermediary processor
(in this case, the rss client), while the html namespace is given to
the end client (browser).

Unfortunately, this still requires out-of-band knowledge about the
namespaces and who should process them, and the granularity of that
dispatch.

I'm just getting my head around this...



On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:43:32PM -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Patrick Kellum <webmaster@quahog-library.com> wrote:
> 
> > <title>&lt;i&gt;italic&lt;/i&gt; in the title</title>
> > 
> > <title><i>italic</i> in the title</title>
> > 
> > The first method seems most common, and much easer to process, but I noticed
> > the second form tonight.
> 
> The first method seems correct, since the second doesn't look like it's
> valid RSS.

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Mark Nottingham
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