Re: who is the entry author?

[Sylvain Hellegouarch]

One idea could be to use DublinCore to make the distinction easier to 
define.

- Sylvain

Zhiwu Xie a écrit :

Hi,

Just a question on the syntax of atom:author. Is it the author of the 
content an entry refers to, or is it the one who posts the content to 
a content management system therefore generates an atom entry? I 
checked google blog and it seems the later is the case (snippet 
below), but then earlier discussions seems to suggest the former, 
e.g., multiple authors/contributors discussion.

The same question can be asked on all the other metadata, e.g., 
rights, updated, published, etc. A more general question is, what all 
these entry metadata are about. The spec says they are all about the 
feed or entry, but it's not immediately clear to me what does the 
entry metadata are about, the XML element itself or the content an 
entry points to. This has much different implications, e.g., if 
atom:right says do not copy, does it mean this atom entry cannot be 
aggregated by other Atom feed aggregator or the contents cannot be 
distributed within the atom:content?

Thanks,

Zhiwu Xie

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google blog snippet: The author of the content should be Matthew 
Glotzbach, inferred from the content, but the entry author is set to 
Karen.

<entry>
  <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10861780.post-4599612599595997166</id>
  <published>2007-07-26T11:13:00.000-07:00</published>
  <updated>2007-07-26T11:43:42.465-07:00</updated>
  <title type="text">Earth to the Enterprise</title>
  <content type="html">
    &lt;span class="byline-author"&gt;Posted by Matthew
    Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google
    Enterprise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...
  </content>
  ...
  <author>
    <name>Karen</name>
  </author>
</entry>