[whatwg] Problems with the Atom Conversion algorithm.

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Fri Jun 11 17:39:45 PDT 2010


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Edward O'Connor <hober0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2. The <title> of atom entries is constrained to contain text only,
>
> That's not quite right. <atom:title> is an Atom Text Construct, which,
> despite having the word 'text' in its name, can contain all sorts of
> things. <atom:title> is the same as <atom:summary>, <atom:content>,
> and <atom:rights>, so the algo should handle it in the same way as it
> does <atom:content>.

Ah, you are correct.  I was misled by the blog post author's "correct"
feed which escaped the <del> elements.  In reality the <title> should
have a @type and then contain html content.

~TJ



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