On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Jay Rossiter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't see what functionality would be restricted by defining that > hubs couldn't change content that they don't maintain as part of the > protocol. If I'm missing something, please enlighten me. > Well - more generally - they might take two kinds of content and aggregate them into one stream. > > I have always been of the opinion that the "message content" is every > attribute of that content. > I understand, and that is a perfectly fine view. alexis > If someone who is not me changes anything that is in that feed, they are > changing the message content. Some content may be intended for machines > instead of humans, but the fact that I took the time to add a <foo:bar/> tag > to my item may have very important meaning to someone/thing reading it. > > Except as necessary to support the propagation of content to > subscribers (e.g. removing items so that only deltas are published, adding > atom:source tags for aggregation, etc.), I can find no reasonable case for > the hub making modifications to the feed. > > On 10/19/2009 4:19 PM, Alexis Richardson wrote: > > I'm sorry I expressed that terribly. > I think some hubs will change some metadata or their functionality will > be very restricted. But that's ok - the message content and identifying > source is what matters? > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Jay Rossiter <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> "it" would be the hub. When the hub sends updates to its subscribers, >> the data that it sends should be identical to what it received in the feed, >> with the exceptions of what is required to handle the protocol. Unknown or >> invalid tags... everything contained within the item/feed being handled. >> >> In short, the hub should never change anything that it is not >> specifically responsible for maintaining. >> > > -- > > Jay Rossiter | Software Engineer/System Administrator > Pioneering RSS Advertising Solutions > > [email protected] | Phone: 503.896.6187 | Fax: 503.235.2216 > Website: www.pheedo.com | RSS: www.pheedo.info/index.xml >
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