James M Snell wrote:
Assuming the same document references are limited to the content, and the content is rendered to the user as discrete entries, the same document references are not going to be an issue.
Some aggregators have a "river of news" mode where everything in a feed, possibly all entries from all feeds, are shown on a single html page. This can cause problems for same document refs when they have duplicate ids. It's not the sort of thing that happens often though, and I suspect you could probably work around it using an iframe for each entry.
issue with atom and rss in general, not just APP. The important thing that we really need to worry about here are relative URI's and same doc refs contained in things like the atom link element.
You mean like Tim's feed? I was discussing this with Aristotle recently on #atom. If you support same document refs in atom links they'd break feeds like Tim's, which is why I've been ignoring them up until now. Aristotle's suggestion was to add support only for the entry contents. That seemed like a reasonable compromise to me, since same document refs inside the feed itself really don't make much sense.
Anyway, as you say, this is an issue with Atom in general. It's not really relevant to this discussion.
Regards James
