Re: Interpreting the Profile

James Holderness wrote:
> 
> Sam Ruby wrote:
>  >> "c/c" - a common abbreviation for "credit card". I could quite easily
>  >> imagine someone using that as a category in a financial feed of some
>  >> sort.
>  >> While there's no way to validate it, that's technically not a valid
>  >> category, since it's not identifying an hierarchical location.
>  >
>  > if category == 'c/c': warn(...)
>  >
>  > The feed validator generally won't implement a check because somebody
>  > "could quite easily imagine" something,
> 
> I don't think the feed validator should be trying to warn about such 
> things.
> I was just trying to give you an example of what an invalid category might
> look like since you didn't seem to get what the profile recommendation
> meant.
> 
> FWIW I have a category database with hundreds of slash separated items. 
> Some
> are clearly hierarchical, many are hard to say either way, but some are
> definitely *not* hierarchical. Some examples: "I/O", "C/C++", "H/P",
> "8/11/2006". Unfortunately I can't tell the source - they could be from
> atom:category elements, dc:subject, or some other category-like extension
> (so not really much better than my hypothetical "c/c" example).

It looks to me that you are successfully making the case that in strings 
that contain a slash in position two are likely to be mistakes.

- Sam Ruby


 
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