* Becker, Matthew R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-23 21:45]: > Is there a recommended technique to expose a feed that orders > entries different from the standard?
The standard prescribes no ordering, and in fact explicitly states that the order of entries within a feed is meaningless. This means, that… > For performance reasons a client paging through a feed may wish > for the feed entries to be ordered in a particular way. … these clients are broken if they can’t handle arbitrary ordering. If you want to do such a thing, then you would have to define an extension element (placed at the feed level, at the top of the feed, along with the other feed metadata) that describes the order. A client could then use this optional information, where it is present, in order to optimise its processing. RFC 4287 itself makes no such provision, though. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
