Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
HTML Mark-up in XML
Occasionally there is HTML mark-up in the text portions of the XML version of Scripting News. While it's perfectly legal XML, with escaped entities, etc., it's not clear what XML consumers of this data are supposed to do with things like <i> (which comes through most parsers as
It's no problem to strip it out on the agent's end, but I just wanted to toss this on the table as a general philosophical issue. Specifically, does it make sense to pass HTML mark-up through to XML agents (if they aren't expecting it)?
Short or full-blown style sheet support (not acceptable for lightweight agents), is there any alternative scheme for providing human-viewable styling on text otherwise destined for automated agent processing?
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