At 08:46 05/02/01, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>x. Managing Feed State
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>Atom Processors MAY keep state (e.g., metadata in atom:head, entries) sourced from Atom Feed Documents and combine them with other Atom Feed Documents, in order to facilitate a contiguous view of the contents of the feed. The manner in which Atom Feed Documents are combined in order to reconstruct a feed (including methods of identifying duplicate entries, updating metadata, and dealing with missing entries) is out of the scope of this specification, but may be defined by an extension to Atom.
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>So, if we drop PaceFeedState, I propose the text above.
Fine with me, except that I'd change the second parenthesis from:
"(including methods of identifying duplicate entries, updating metadata, and dealing with missing entries)"
to:
"(including methods of updating metadata and dealing with missing entries)"
How to identify duplicate entries is clear from the description of the id attribute, so I don't think it belongs here.
Regards, Martin.
