Hi Lisa, * Lisa Dusseault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-22 01:40]: > When is data Atom-like? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_syndication > > ...puts emphasis on the ability to "provide other people with a > summary of the website's recently added content"
but that is just a convention. There is no requirement per spec that the entries in a feed be selected based on any particular criterion – not by timestamp nor by any other. > A very direct reading of the data format suggests to me that > the questions Atom is most organized to answer are: > > What's new? > For each new thing: > ... who wrote it, when? > ... how do I get the rest of it? If you leave out the “What’s new” question and generically say “for each listed thing”, then that’s not bad. Really, the question of what Atom’s good for is the question “what can I express with a bunch of Entry Documents?” and the answer is “a bunch of mostly self-contained resources.” That is, what you *can’t* easily express is strong structure that crosses the boundaries of multiple Entries. The Entries need to be peers in some sense. As long as your data model fits that requirement, it will be quite easily mapped to Atom. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
