On 28/10/05 2:56 AM, "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> atom:published is optional because there is no reason to require feed > publishers to indicate when an entry has been published. > It was also decided to be optional because some publishing engines don't/can't accommodate the concept of a published date. No storage allocated. You can't publish data you don't store. > Now flip it around, suppose that Sam's entry does NOT have atom:published, but > I want the entry to be publicly available. Using your suggested approach, I > have to add atom:published to his entry, meaning that I am adding metadata to > the entry that does not accurately reflect the reality of when Sam's entry was > actually published. That's also bad. > +1, that is quite -1. e.
