On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:08 PM, James M Snell wrote:
The updated element is used to indicate when a significant update has occurred to the entry. If you are updating the updated element when you update your entry, you are doing the right thing. If RSSBandit and FeedDemon are not picking up the fact that the entry has been modified based on a changed updated value (even if the updated element is the only thing that is different), then I would say those readers have a bug. You should never be changing your id element value.
James is exactly right. The whole reason 'updated' exists is *exactly* so you can tell the downstream software unambiguously when some entry has changed and this ought to be brought to the consumers' attention. -Tim
