--On February 15, 2005 8:56:24 PM +0100 Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Underwood wrote: >> This also means that Atom cannot be used for BBC News, where order is >> significant and non-chronological. > > Could you elaborate on that?
The BBC News feeds are ordered by "importance", not date. Since the order is not significant, intermediate nodes could re-order the feed and be perfectly legal Atom processors. A publishing date order can be recovered from the date information in Atom. Other orders cannot. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
