On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:35 PM, Robert Sayre wrote:
Tim Bray wrote:
Uh, why? The notion of specifying the author once in the header
seems sensible and straightforward, particularly in a one-author shop
like mine.
I'm not saying you should have to include author elements in every
entry. I'm saying that a copyright/author element in an entry doesn't
'override' the author/copyright of the collective work. There are just
two attributions.
Put another way, if you have a a feed of ten entries, with one entry
attributed to someone else, your feed-level authorship still applies
to all ten entries.
Once again, why? It's so easy to explain and understand: if there's an
<author> in the <head>, then that applies to all the <entry>s which
don't have their own <author>. Simple, logical, uncomplicated,
efficient. Either you're straining at a gnat or I'm failing to see the
elephant in the room -Tim
