* Jan Algermissen <[email protected]> [2009-09-01 13:45]: > RFC 4287 states this about the XML format it defines: > > 'For convenience, this data format may be referred to as "Atom 1.0"' > [Section 1.2] > > Does this imply the intention that forward compatible changes > to the Atom syntax will be referred to as Atom 1.x and that > incompatible changes would be referred to as Atom 2.x, 3.x,...?
It’s a hat tip to the past, not the future. Unfinished versions of Atom had been referred to as 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, etc. Early drafts of the spec even had a `version` attribute, like most versions of RSS. These ideas were both eventually rejected. > IOW, is there an implied versioning scheme? There was no intent to ever revise Atom. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
