Tim Bray wrote:
I'm +1 on both Mark and Joe's version, slightly stronger on Joe's because I don't think we need drag extensions in.
"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, including document order."
Extensions don't get to make demands on generic Atom processors.
Lots feeds will consist of entris with the same date, and lots of aggregators will just show things in the order the SAX parser sent it.
Robert Sayre