I detect that a lot of opposition to atom:modified comes from the fact that it is a REQUIRED element and that many of the publishers actually putting it in the feed and paying for the bandwidth don't intend using it frequently?
Would it help if we said that if the atom:modified element is absent, its value MAY be taken from the atom:updated element? (or to put it another way: atom:modified MAY be omitted if its value is equivalent to the value of atom:updated). -- Dave
