James Snell wrote:
One thing that needs to be kept in mind... and that feed reader developers need to make sure they're handling properly... is that Atom intentionally provides two locations for human readable content: atom:content and atom:summary. If the atom:content element does not contain readily displayable content (like HTML), then the atom:summary element should be used to provide some kind of displayable approximation.
But feed producers also need to bare in mind that the summary element is not the place for alternate representations (in the sense of multipart/alternate). You don't put an XML document format in the content and then an alternate HTML version in the summary. Nor do you but a image format in the content an HTML img thumbnail in the summary (I'm looking at you, Picasa).
The summary should be a short, human-readable, text abstract or excerpt. Regards James
