Another way to namespace an Atom feed, except that very few aggregators can handle it.
Aristotle Pagaltzis: Who knows an XML document from a hole in the ground?
XML is hard.
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Dare Obasanjo on Microformats vs. XML: Was the XML Vision Wrong?:
I’ve always considered it a gross hack to think that instead of having an HTML web page for my blog and an Atom/RSS feed, instead I should have a single HTML page with <div class="rss:item">
or <h3 class="atom:title">
embedded in it instead. However given that one of the inventors of XML (Tim Bray) is now advocating this approach, I wonder if I’m simply clinging to old ways and have become the kind of intellectual dinosaur I bemoan.
I find the idea of feed metadata stored within the actual index page of blog (presumably as a microformat) VERY compelling.
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Tim Bray on Don’t Invent XML Languages:
Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom.
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Let’s say I create the following entry in Movable Type 3.2. Five paragraphs with the middle three enclosed in a blockquote. Fairly standard blog post skeleton.
paragraph 1
<blockquote>
paragraph 2
paragraph 3
paragraph 4
</blockquote>
paragraph 5
What HTML do I want MT to produce as a result?
<p>paragraph 1</p>
<blockquote>
<p>paragraph 2</p>
<p>paragraph 3</p>
<p>paragraph 4</p>
</blockquote>
<p>paragraph 5</p>
What HTML does MT actually produce? Invalidly nested HTML. Fun.
<p>paragraph 1</p>
<blockquote>
paragraph 2
<p>paragraph 3</p>
<p>paragraph 4<br />
</blockquote></p>
<p>paragraph 5</p>
What a bummer. I would consider this a fairly critical bug. Oh, and WordPress gets this right. Workaround: manually mark up the paragraphs inside the blockquote. One more thing I wish I didn’t have to remember.
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An interesting bit about how Seed magazine’s site was implemented in MT:
So, we pitched it. And, to our mild amazement, we won the gig. We were likely the underdogs, but I think our strong confidence in MT and our success with Sciencegate helped us out. Plus — we were passionate about the project. Seed is a new breed of science magazine, with truly lofty ideals, and we wanted to be part of that.
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