--On February 7, 2005 4:27:12 PM -0500 Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ultimately, the sentiment that I want conveyed is that publishers are not > safe to assume that clients will read anything into the order.
And I think that the order should mean "the publisher put them in this order." The Pace forbids that interpretation. Clients can reorder things, show only a few, whatever. I'm not restricting client behavior. Do other specs in the RSS family say anything about order? If order is significant in those, then making it not significant in Atom will hurt interoperability. Hmm, I can't finding any ordering restrictions in a quick read of RSS 0.91 and 2.0, but RSS 1.0 does specify ordering. >From RSS 1.0: 5.3.5 <items> An RDF Seq (sequence) is used to contain all the items rather than an RDF Bag to denote item order for rendering and reconstruction. <http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec#s5.3.5> wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
