Bob Wyman wrote:
I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has
proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got
folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e. stateful,
incremental or partitioned feeds)… I think they are wrong. Feeds
aren’t lists and Lists aren’t feeds. It seems to me that if you want a
“Top 10” list, then you should simply create an entry that provides
your Top 10. Then, insert that entry in your feed so that the rest of
us can read it. If you update the list, then just replace the entry in
your feed. If you create a new list (Top 34?) then insert that in the
feed along with the “Top10” list.
Henry Story also proposed atom:id to be "order-related":
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
...
<entry>
<id>tag:first-in-list</id>
<title>Some entry</title>
...
</entry>
<entry>
<id>tag:second-in-list</id>
<title>Another entry</title>
...
</entry>
</feed>
and a bit later:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";>
...
<entry>
<id>tag:first-in-list</id>
<title>Another entry</title>
...
</entry>
<entry>
<id>tag:second-in-list</id>
<title>Yet another entry</title>
...
</entry>
</feed>
Note how tag:first-in-list entry now represents "Another entry" while it
were previously "Some entry", and tag:second-in-list now is "Yet another
entry" while it were "Another entry".
--
Thomas Broyer
