--On February 4, 2005 11:44:31 AM -0800 Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Walter Underwood wrote: > >> Is this a joke? This is like saying that the order of the entries in my >> mailbox is not significant. Note that ordering a mailbox by date is not >> the same thing as its native order. > > Except for, Atom entries have a *compulsory* <updated> date. So I have no > idea what semantics you'd attach to the "natural" order... -Tim
Order the publisher wants to present them in. Conventionally, most recently published first. Entries may be updated without being reordered. If clients are told to ignore the order, and given only an updated timestamp, there is no way to show "most recent headlines", which is the primary purpose of the whole family of RSS formats. Right now, you can shuffle the entries and Atom says it is the same feed. Either we need a published date stamp or we need to honor the order. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
