When the URL of a feed is changed, its atom:id can remain unchanged, and that is assumed to be the same feed theoretically.
(I am not sure if that is the case in the real world) Franklin ----- Original Message ----- From: "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Franklin Tse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "James Holderness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "atom-syntax" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May, 2007 16:43 Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-10.txt > Well, for an RSS feed, it's URL pretty much plays the role of the > identifier*. An atom:id certainly could be used, but I wouldn't imagine > that any sane implementation would make it anything different than the > URL of the RSS feed itself. > > * quite honestly, I've never really understood why atom:feed requires an > atom:id :-) > > - James > > Franklin Tse wrote: >> [snip] >> By the way, do publishers need to use an atom:id element in RSS 2 feeds >> since there is no equivalent in RSS 2? >> [snip] >
