Formats

Here we describe the format of the claims and votes.

Claim format

A claim is simply a text document, having a title and a body of text.

This body text (but not the title) may contain simple html formatting, including tables and most links, but may not include forms, scripts, or active content.

The title may not be longer than 64 characters (less or more if unicode).

The title and body text together may not be longer than 2 kilobytes (minus about 100)

Disallowed html formatting is stripped out unless excessive.

Excess length or non printing text (i.e. binary) causes a claim to be rejected, and the submitting session is cancelled.

allowed in claim text

plain text
Simple HTML formatting including headings, lists, tables
absolute URL links to resources outside the lens (outside pollite.org) for supporting docs, diagrams, multimedia, etc.

not allowed

forms
scripts (javascript, vbscript, etc.)
relative URL links or other links to documents within the Lens
HTML comments or other non-printing text
any HTML tags that may not appear in the body of an HTML document
any browser specific HTML tags that are not part of HTML2.0 or something
any inline binary data
more than 1000 characters of total data (tags and text)

Vote format

Votes are short single words, or names.

Votes are displayed all uppercase, no matter what you type.

Votes used to represent Names are separated by underscores.

Votes may contain numbers.

If you type lower case or spaces in a vote name field, they will be converted to upper case and underscores.