[uf-discuss] hAtom draft

Wed Nov 30 23:38:14 PST 2005

On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:02 AM, David Janes -- BlogMatrix wrote:
> Have at it:
> http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom

Some comments (sorry, its taken me awhile to get to this):
1. I notice that "feed title" and "feed permalink" have been deferred 
to future versions (see http://microformats.org/wiki/ 
hatom#Nomenclature). Any reasons why? I must be missing something, 
'cause these seem easy to me.
2. Not to pick nits, but datetime's probably don't *have to* use the 
datetime-design-pattern. People who want to are free to publish the ISO
3. I see that we're allowing multiple feeds per page. I wonder what 
the pros and cons of this are?
4. Why do we prefer <h#> over class="title" for entry titles?
5. "Entry Permalinks MUST be absolute URIs". Why? We have well 
established rules for relative urls.
6. quote:
> there can be at most 1 Entry in an XHTML document without an Entry 
> Permalink; the Entry Permalink of this Entry is the URI of the page
> This rule is needed for media pages (i.e. a news article on 
> cnn.com). There is some ugliness of with this because the URI could 
> be non-canonical."

I'm not sure I follow this and don't see anything on the 
brainstorming page about it.
7. "the machine readable datetime should be encoded with an <abbr> ". 
Again, maybe this *should* should be a *may* ?
8. Open item for the list:
> if there is no Entry Updated and Entry Published elements, 
> transformation to Atom is problematic
> This is because a published element is required. Suggestions would 
> be appreciated here.

Alright, so I'm going to stop before digging into the xmdp and 
parsing details. Forgive me, david if any of this is ignorance.
-ryan
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