On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 10:41 AM, Robert Sayre wrote:
What is meant by deleted?
Here's the thread from last time discussed this: http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg08585.html
From that message:
A delete event fits within the rubric of a full versioning publishing process, and sits alongside other events like retracted, superceded, withdrawn, etc.
Do we need to get into those details? Perhaps it would be sufficient to do it like this in the core:
<deleted>
<id>urn:blah/blah/blah</id>
</deleted>so that people who care about additional information could do something like this:
<deleted>
<id>urn:blah/blah/blah</id>
<foo:reason code="superceded">This entry has been superceded by one based on better intelligence.</foo:reason>
</deleted>
or
<deleted entry="urn:blah/blah/blah" />
and
<deleted entry="urn:blah/blah/blah">
<foo:reason code="superceded">This entry has been superceded by one based on better intelligence.</foo:reason>
</deleted>
My uninformed opinion is that most implementations would be sufficiently served by knowing simply that the publisher has deleted a particular entry, and that keeping it as lightweight as possible would be preferable.
