Bill de hOra wrote: > Brian Smith wrote: > That's not what the spec says. What spec text allows a > client to assume a term is globally unique?
The spec says: The "scheme" attribute [...] identifies a categorization scheme. We seem to all be unanimous that here "identifies" means "uniquely identifies". But, immediately prior to that we have: The "term" attribute [...] identifies the category to which the entry or feed belongs. Here, apparently, "identifies" does not mean "uniquely identifies" even though the sentence structure is exactly the same. I dug around and saw that in draft 04 of the spec., the term attribute was defined with different language: The "term" attribute [...] identifies the category within the categorization scheme to which the entry or feed belongs. It is poorly worded but I think it is clearer than what the spec. says now. I can see that there is consensus here (that I am wrong :), so I won't argue further about what the spec. says vs. what it intends to say. If there is some errata mechanism for the specification, we should consider adding a clarification there. See also: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06874.html http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-atompub-format-04#section-3.7.1 Regards, Brian
