* Roland Jungwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-07 15:15]: > 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.
You’re in the right place. > Am I interpreting the specification falsely? Yes. > 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."? No. There is no such thing as a “entry:id”. “atom:id” refers to an element called “id”, and the “atom:” prefix means it must be in the Atom namespace. This is standard XML namespace lingo and has nothing to do with the level at which an element appears in the feed. You may want to look into namespaces in XML, if you do not have a firm understanding of these. atom:id elements can – in fact, MUST – appear as children of both the top-level atom:feed as well as each individual atom:entry element. What the spec means is that different atom:entry elements representing different entries must had different unique IDs, and what it’s saying is that when there are multiple atom:entry elements, and the values of their atom:id children are identical, then all these atom:entry elements represent different versions of one and the same entry. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
