> Alternatively, you could decide to > trust that the feed publisher may have already done all this work and > has provided a reasonably accurate count in the form of the thr:count > attribute. It's your choice.
This to me is what its all about. I hear a lot of people saying that you can't be sure that the comment count is accurate. That the ONLY way to be sure is to get the whole feed with all the comments. To those people I would say you have "trust issues." I am being snide, I admit, but truthfully, why would Six Apart (or any other implementer) not want to keep the two values in sync when it is so clear that we SHOULD. Certainly my implementations do. And if they were ever out of sync (i.e. the count attribute saying 5, and the feed containing 6) then that is a bug and I frick'n need to fix that. Byrne
