On Jun 21, 2007, at 6:04 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
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.
I guess that's true, as you pointed out there's no requirement that
the entries that a server lists even be recent ones.
So then the things you can rely on Atom (without extensions) to tell
you about a collection of information reduces to:
What entries of this collection do you care to inform me about?
... who wrote each one, when were they updated?
... how do I get the rest of each one?
Lisa
