David Powell wrote:
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).
I think this will result in people misusing the field. Either giving
atom:updated the last modified time or giving it the last significant
modification time and simply omitting atom:modified because that is
extra work.
If it is introduced in some optional fashion it should not relate to
another date construct I think.
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
