Re: [blogite] PingBack description files

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

From: Jim Dabell (jim-blogite@jimdabell.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 19:24:47 BST

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Saturday 07 September 2002 5:06 pm, Simon Willison wrote:
> At 17:35 07/09/2002 +0100, Simon Willison wrote:
> >One potential problem with the above is that interface details are
> >contained as a single block of CDATA. This is pretty inflexible - for
> >example, it would be better if PingBack servers were indicated with a
> >host, path and port and it would be good if email addresses could
> > request a specific subject. Any ideas for a way of adding that to the
> > above format without bloating it with too many elements (it would be
> > good if it was extendable as well, so the format could be used to
> > specify a new format like instant messenging via jabber without needing
> > any extra elements or attributes added to the DTD).
>
> I've got a solution. Unfortunately it uses XML namespaces - is this a big
> problem? I've only just got my head around them and I'm not overly keen
> on adding something complicated like namespaces to the spec for no good
> reason. That said, I think this is a pretty cool way of using them :)
[snip]

I'm not very familiar with them, I only know the basics. My initial
reaction is definitely "over-engineering". What's the support like for
namespaces in the various processors?

I think that there is a good chance that most of the problems that you are
solving could be resolved by simply using URIs, however I have my doubts.
My gut instinct is telling me to leave namespaces until pingback 2.0 -
remember 99% of all files will simply define xml-rpc and one fallback :)

- --
Jim Dabell

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE9ekRw3tJNldoQhi8RAv6mAKDH0C3rLAyEMIbKcBVU/wth/LgdagCgldNe
jR6CGvntBKn9u6JI9P5jqdI=
=sadq
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Message sent over the Blogite mailing list.
Archives: http://www.aquarionics.com/misc/archives/blogite/
Instructions: http://www.aquarionics.com/misc/blogite/

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Attachment view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Sep 07 2002 - 19:05:01 BST