Robert Sayre wrote:
> What does atom:id have to do with temporal ordering?
Absolutely nothing.
Atom:id is used to identify sets of entry instances which, according
to the Atom specification, should be considered "the same entry". Sets
composed of instances of "the same entry" can then be divided into subsets
that share a common atom:updated value. After such a division into subsets,
some of the subsets may contain multiple elements which cannot be temporally
ordered given the current Atom spec draft. atom:modified provides a means to
temporally order the elements of sets which contain multiple elements that
share common atom:id and atom:updated values.
I believe this was communicated when I wrote:
"Atom should support atom:modified to permit the temporal-ordering of
members of sets that share the same atom:id and atom:updated values."
bob wyman
