Keeping On Your Toes
A few, not completely unrelated, items:
Apparently it is great sport to find holes in my XHTML implementation. Fortunately I keep finding ways to annoy such people. :-)
In the process Jacques Distler discovered that the W3C page which recommends a regular expression for checking for proper XML/UTF-8 allows through UTF-8 encodings of U+FFFE and U+FFFF.
Meanwhile, I was using XML Builder to produce HTML and discovered that XML builder doesn’t ensure that tags are properly closed: testcase/monkeypatch. My experience with the XML Builder maintainer is much better than my experience with the REXML maintainer, so I expect that this issue will be promptly addressed.
Speaking of promptness, if anybody could track down Jeremy Zawodny, I’d appreciate it. Actually, it would be much better if those that back MediaRSS and those that support iTunes could simply review HTML5’s video tag and figure out what needs to be added and how to use it in the context of a feed, life would be so much better.
Yes he is. I went ahead and made a for: bookmark in del.icio.us to mark this post to his attention, so I’m sure he’ll see it eventually.
Posted by Michael R. Bernstein at
In the process Jacques Distler discovered that the W3C page which recommends a regular expression for checking for proper XML/UTF-8 allows through UTF-8 encodings of U+FFFE and U+FFFF.
The other obvious problem with the aforementioned regexp (well, perhaps obvious to everyone but me) is that one needs to expand NCRs to utf-8 before applying it.
Posted by Jacques Distler atSam, did Jeremy get back to you yet? He’s back from his safari now...
Posted by Michael R. Bernstein at
Sam Ruby: Keeping On Your Toes
Jeremy, Sam’s waiting for a response from you......Excerpt from del.icio.us/zopemaven at
At this point, I don’t know what else to try. I know he saw the comment, because he approved it.
Posted by Michael R. Bernstein at
Michael, I’m pretty sure there is a path for comments being approved on Jeremy’s blog without him manually approving them.
Posted by Lloyd Budd at
Lloyd, I’m not sure I understand what you mean. My comment was held for approval, it was (later) approved, so who approved it other than Jeremy?
Posted by Michael R. Bernstein at
isn’t Jeremy on safari at the moment? as in, not the browser.
Posted by stephen o'grady at