Oops. Yes... should be "lastBuildDate" instead of "pubDate"... Sorry...

Franklin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Nottingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Franklin Tse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "James Holderness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "atom-syntax" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2007 18:39
Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-10.txt

> The draft currently says;
> 
>> In RSS 2.0-formatted feeds, two entries are duplicates if they have  
>> the same guid element. The update time of an entry is not defined  
>> by RSS 2.0, but the feed-level update time can be determined by the  
>> pubDate element.
> 
> Should 'pubDate' be changed to 'lastBuildDate'?
> 
> 
> 
> On 23/05/2007, at 6:22 PM, Franklin Tse wrote:
> 
>>
>> In section 4.2 of the draft,
>>
>>    In Atom-formatted archived feeds, two entries are duplicates if  
>> they
>>    have the same atom:id element.  The update time of an entry is
>>    determined by its atom:updated element, and likewise the update  
>> time
>>    of a feed document is determined by its feed-level atom:updated
>>    element.
>>
>> In RSS 2, the equivalent of atom:feed/atom:updated is rss/channel/ 
>> lastBuildDate. I think it is a good practice to always include it.
>>
>> By the way, do publishers need to use an atom:id element in RSS 2  
>> feeds since there is no equivalent in RSS 2?
>>
>> Franklin
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "James Holderness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "atom-syntax" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, 23 May, 2007 15:37
>> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-10.txt
>>
>>>
>>> Franklin Tse wrote:
>>>> I think lastBuildDate and managingEditor should not be
>>>> removed since they are equal to atom:updated and atom:author
>>>> respectively.
>>>
>>> I considered that, but it seems to me the only reason they are in  
>>> the Atom
>>> examples is because Atom requires those elements - they don't  
>>> actually add
>>> anything illustrative to the example. However, if you really want  
>>> to make
>>> the examples identical element-for-element, then the Atom feeds  
>>> should all
>>> include a subtitle element to match RSS's required channel  
>>> description.
>>> IMHO.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
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