What would happen if an RSS feed contains atom:id? Franklin
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James M Snell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "atom-syntax" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 24 May, 2007 22:10 Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-10.txt > > James M Snell wrote: >> 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 :-) > > For an RSS feed, Venus assumes that the <link> element plays the role of > an identifier. Assumes being the operative word. > > In RSS (all flavors), channel link is required. In Atom, feed id is > required. > > In any case, one can have multiple feeds (possibly in different formats) > all at different URIs all identifying the same thing. > > - Sam Ruby > >
