I have to say that Tim Bray has done an absolutely fantastic job of cleaning up Atom. A look at the latest Atom format spec shows a much such simpler syntax than the deployed version (version 0.3). Some great changes are...
- Text construct no longer has the redundant mode attribute.
- atom:post and atom:edit are more obvious.
- Atom dates are simpler. No more timezone hell.
Now, I don't care too much about the format, but if he can do that same to the Atom protocol spec, then we have a winner. I might create XSD, Relax NG and Schematron for this new format spec.
The longer you cook them, the more burnt they get?
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