Re: [xml-dev] XML Design Choices

["James Fuller" <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Martin Gallagher
<speeple@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working a a blog XML format I hope to be logical and future proof.
>
> The problem is the design of the mark-up itself.
>
> For example:
> http://dev.speeple.com/blogs/examples/example.xml?year=2008&month=4&day=2&title=roma-0-2-manchester-united-arsenal-1-1-liverpool-fenerbahce-2-1-chelsea
>

I would recommend using (or at least looking at) ATOM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)

hth, JIm Fuller

> I have a small urge to rap /blog/post/tag nodes into a container <tags> and
> ditto for /blog/post/related, but technically this doesn't increase
> extensibility and creates more overhead (more data and redundancy).
>
> Would you agree adding <tags> etc wrappers would be redundant and not
> increase accessibility/extensibility?