Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > as I said, otherwise, you could not express the fact that the > direction of the text in the <bar> element above is "Not Known". > Without dir="", you could not "cancel" the directionality of > <foo> in its nested elements. Well, yes, but so far the Web with all its (X)HTML pages never needed an "unknown direction" feature, why is this necessary in ATOM ? And how would you implement an "unknown direction", toss a coin ? Frank _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf