Hi,
I hope I am submitting this to the correct mailing list, if not, please
feel free to delete the message and maybe point me in the right direction.
When going through the Atom specification regarding syntax
(http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt), I
came to point 4.1.1 "The atom:feed Element". This states that every
atom:feed element has to have one (and only one) atom:id element but can
have 0:n atom:entry elements. One makes me wonder is the sentence after
the constraint descriptions:
"If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in
an Atom Feed Document, they represent the same entry."
This does not seem logical (to me ;) ). If I have more than one entry in
the feed, every entry is actually the same entry (as specified) - except
for the updated timestamps which should be different. As I understand
RSS feeds, there are many entries concerning a topic, but seeing that
every entry is the same, there would always be only one topic entry,
implying that there must be a new atom:feed for every new topic.entry
and every atom:feed can have different "versions" of the same entry.
Am I interpreting the specification falsely? Or should the sentence
actually state:
"If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value AND NO
ENTRY:ID appear in an Atom Feed Document, they represent the same entry."?
Please clarify this to me.
Greetings
Roland
