If the other feeds contain any "dir" attribute, the aggregator can simply copy the entries.
If the other feeds do not contain any "dir" attribute, the aggregator may generate "dir" attributes for those entries in the aggregated feed based on direction guessing. Franklin ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Holderness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "atom-syntax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "atom-protocol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 01:31 Subject: Re: Atom Bidi Draft Update - Informal Last Call > > James M Snell wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>From the example, I am not sure what the feed author wants. So far there >>>>are only two directionalities allowed, left-to-right and right-to-left. >>>>In the example, the directionality of atom:entry is "rtl", there is no >>>>reason for the author to reset the directionality with an empty string. >>>>He should either change the directionality to "ltr" in atom:content or >>>>keep "rtl" by not using any "dir" attribute in atom:content. >> >> Fair enough. Removing dir="" requires that the feed publisher always >> explicitly set the direction. It simplifies processing and helps to >> eliminate guessing. Those are compelling enough reasons. In the next >> iteration I'll remove the blank value. > > What would a planet feed do when aggregating content from other feeds that > may not have explicit directionality? If I'm understanding things correctly, > you would lose the ability to use the dir attribute on the root of the feed, > because there would be no way of overriding it for feed items whose > directionality was unknown. > > Not that that's the end of the world. I just want to be sure that you > realise you'd be losing that functionality. > > Regards > James > >
