On 12 May 2005, at 18:49, Eric Scheid wrote:
On 13/5/05 2:04 AM, "Roger B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Gah! What is the true atom:updated for the following entry?
Eric: The entry-level version, IMO.
What if an atom processor had previously seen that entry with that
atom:updated ... should it do anything with it? Should it update it's local
store in any way?
What if the /atom:feed/atom:author element had been changed (and the publisher thought that was significant)?
Just to recapitulate: we have 2 feed documents with successive atom updated
values, and with the same entry (same id) with the same time stamp but some values
that are not identical. Does the newer feed document trump the older one?
Does this not all depend whether you are an optimist or a pessimist?
The optimist will think that the future is always an improvement over the past, and
so think that the new feed he has received will be giving a correction on the old state
of the entry.
The pessimist will think that the future is worse than the present, and think that
the newer version of the feed documents must contain a mistaken entry.
Henry
e.
