On 2008-02-04 22:08, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Daniel Aleksandersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-04 16:10]: > > Why does so many in this list fail to eralise that I am talking > > about the <feed> element’s <id> element? > > Ugh, sorry. > > Well, the point about atom:id being globally unique continues to > apply in either case. > > However, I’m not sure what the feed ID really identifies, nor can > I recall any compelling argument about its meaning, so I have no > idea when feeds should share an ID. (The fact that everyone > thought you were talking about entry IDs is a strong indicator > that no one has much use for feed IDs.)
(It is an required child of the feed element. Everybody are required to use it.) I was surprised to not find any mentioning of the feed element’s id element it in urn:ietf:rfc:5005. It was one of the first things I wondered about when I learned of the specification. > In the context of Atompub it is somewhat clear: when two feeds > are views onto the same collection, they should probably have > the same ID. However, even then it is not necessarily clear > when a feed other than the collection feed is a view onto that > collection rather than a distinct entity that happens to draw > entries from the collection. Then the question is whether the feed element’s id element identifies the feed or the collection [of entries]. As of now I am using the same id value for all the feeds. I will continue doing that until someone [in here] tells me otherwise. -- Daniel Aleksandersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
