>(I.e., I could come up with the UseLexicalOrdering extension, and >require processors to understand it to use the feed, assuming our >extensibility model supports that, which I very much hope it will). Ok, well I am assuming that we won�t have MustUnderstand extensions, therefore all extensions must be just informative.
>My preference would be something like > >This specification assigns no significance to the order of atom:entry >elements within an Atom Feed Document. Atom Processors MAY present >entries in any order, unless a specific ordering is required by an >extension. > Given a model of only informative metadata extensions this wouldn't be valid, unless the spec said that the order was significant, then it would be acceptable to communcate a preferred display order using extensions. The question is basically, if I have a database does it need to preserve the sequence number of the entry within a document? Display order is a different matter, but for the option of lexical order, then the answer would need to be yes, but I don't think it would be worth it. -- Dave
