Eric Scheid wrote:
><origin href="..." type="application/rdf+xml" title="My RDF Feed"/>
That's more expressive than RSS V2.0's <source/> since it provides
type as well as URL and title, however, it still doesn't provide feed-level
metadata such as "author", "copyright", etc. that are potentially vital to
the proper interpretation of an entry. Some feed-level metadata is
inheritable by entries, other feed-level metadata is important for
understanding the context in which the entry was published or within which
it was intended to be interpreted.
> If an entry is originally published in Feed-A, picked up by an
> aggregator and republished in Feed-B, which is then picked up by
> another aggregator and republished in Feed-C ... what should the value
> of atom:origin in Feed-C be? Should it be the atom:id of Feed-B,
> or Feed-A?
I believe that an entry can only have one "origin". In the case
above, clearly the "origin" is Feed-A. It might, for some applications, be
interesting to note from where the entry was most recently copied, however,
that would be something other than origin.
bob wyman
