On 6 Okt., 18:16, Bob Wyman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Niko Sams <[email protected]> wrote: > > If PSHB doesn't support deletion, then I must > > fetch the original feed on every notification - > > and ignore the supplied atom feed completely. > > Why would you "fetch the original feed on every notification"? What > information would you get by doing that? > Atom provides no means to mark an item as deleted. Thus, reading the feed > won't tell you what is "deleted." > > I'm assuming that you realize that the mere removal of an item from a feed > is *not* the same as deletion. In this context, a "deletion" is really more > like a "retraction." The contents of a feed document are only a sliding > window on the virtual "feed" of all entries published to the feed over time. > The presence or absence of an entry in any particular feed document does not > carry information. The "life" of an entry is independent of its presence > within any particular feed document. > > What do you learn by fetching the original feed? (Note: The atom format spec > would say: "Nothing!") I see your point, thanks for the clearification.
Still it's a practical use case that a blog entry get's removed. Niko
