Henry Story wrote:
> I also need to spend more time really understanding Bob Wyman's
> point to see how that affects the problem or if there are other
> solutions to it.
Perhaps this might make it easier:
Imagine that there are two feeds that you wish to read: A and B.
Now, imagine that you have two choices for how to read the content
of these two feeds:
1. Receive each feed individually
2. Or, Receive both feeds in a composite feed
I argue that your choice should make no difference. There should be
no information loss as a result of passing entries through a composite feed.
In fact, if all of the entries of a source feed are passed through a
composite feed, you should be able to faithfully reconstruct the original
source feed. (You might think of the composite feed creation process as one
of "tangling" multiple feeds. Then, you should be able to "untangle" them.)
Since it is clear that at least some feed-level metadata is part of
the information associated with an entry, I contend that when we remove
entries from their source feeds, we should copy that meta-data as well. The
feed-level metadata is just as much a part of an entry as are the children
elements of the <entry/> element.
bob wyman
