Re: PaceAllowDuplicateIdsWithModified

2005-05-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 18/5/05 7:41 PM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so very long ago you suggested that aggregators look at the content to determine if it's changed. If it's good enough for aggregators, it's good enough for publishers (actually better than good enough since the publisher would be

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-19 Thread Sam Ruby
Tim Bray wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: Isn't that redundant? From PaceOptionalSummary: Yup. Think we got that covered. -Tim Off list, Robert pointed out to me that that the spec text I cited didn't cover empty summaries. He's right. - Sam Ruby

PaceTextShouldBeProvided and accessibility - was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-19 Thread Isofarro
Tim Bray wrote: PaceTextShouldBeProvided +1 from Ruby, explicit -1's from Sayre and de hÓra. However, taking this and PaceOptionalSummary together, it seems clear that the WG generally believes the following: - Title-only feeds are OK for data where that's really all you have. - Failing to

Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-19 Thread Isofarro
Graham wrote: On 18 May 2005, at 9:36 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: atom:entry elements are advised to contain ... a non-empty atom:summary element when the entry contains no atom:content element I'd like us to advise including an atom:summary when atom:content is binary (or for that matter, any

Re: PaceTextShouldBeProvided and accessibility - was Re: Consensus call on last raft of issues

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Pilgrim
On 5/19/05, Isofarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd urge that the wording here should also include accessibility concerns, especially to encourage accessible alternatives to to be adopted when the content is known to be inaccessible - e.g. images, sound files, movies, flash. HTML for

Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Tim Bray
On May 18, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: There seemed to be consensus that feeds needed something to identify them. What there wasn't consensus on is which element should be that identifier. The solution selected was to make none of the identifiers required - something I

Non-empty elements

2005-05-19 Thread Tim Bray
Some applications may choose to require a minimum amount of inline text or (X)HTML data to function reliably and predictably. For that reason, atom:entry elements are advised to contain a non-empty atom:title element, a non-empty atom:summary element when the entry contains no atom:content

Re: Non-empty elements

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/19/05, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: co-chair-mode Paul and I consider that the following text has consensus support of the WG and the editors are directed to include it in the format draft (editorial judgment call on where to insert): Some applications (one example is full-text

multiple ids

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Sayre
--- The editors are directed to modify the phrase which starts If multiple atom:entry elements... as follows: If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in an Atom Feed document, they describe the same entry and software MUST treat them as such.

remote content?

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Sayre
I don't think we ever resolved this last call issue. http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg14383.html Tim Bray wrote: OK, WG, what do you think? I have long supported the SHOULD here, but I can't help observing that a lot of different parties have questioned it, I'm not 100% sure

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Sam Ruby
Tim Bray wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 9:11 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: There seemed to be consensus that feeds needed something to identify them. What there wasn't consensus on is which element should be that identifier. The solution selected was to make none of the identifiers required -

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/19/05, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, breaking any link in my complicated chain of logic above would cause the whole argument to collapse, which would be fine with me. Maybe the requirement is useless. If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | What should we do? One way to solve this is to require id *and* update | Graham's original proposal accordingly, *and* incorporate it into the next | (and presumably final draft). | | - - - | | That's what I meant by There is a danger of looking

Re: Non-empty elements

2005-05-19 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | co-chair-mode | Paul and I consider that the following text has consensus support of the WG | and the editors are directed to include it in the format draft (editorial | judgment call on where to insert): | | Some applications (one example is

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Danny Ayers
On 5/19/05, Sam Ruby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Park has proposed that we loosen the existing language to permit duplicate ids in the case where the entries have atom:source elements which identify different URI's in self links. I support this compromise and believe it

Re: Non-empty elements

2005-05-19 Thread Roger B.
Rephrasing slightly... + 1 -- Roger Benningfield

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Graham
On 19 May 2005, at 9:38 pm, Sam Ruby wrote: What should we do? One way to solve this is to require id *and* update Graham's original proposal accordingly, *and* incorporate it into the next (and presumably final draft). The original proposal actually relied on ids:

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 19/5/05 10:41 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We suggest that there may be WG consensus in favor of changing the format spec to make atom:id a required child of atom:feed. (Text not provided, we trust the editors to figure out the correct way to say this). Please indicate

Re: Compulsory feed ID?

2005-05-19 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, May 19, 2005, at 06:41 AM, Tim Bray wrote: We suggest that there may be WG consensus in favor of changing the format spec to make atom:id a required child of atom:feed. (Text not provided, we trust the editors to figure out the correct way to say this). Please indicate agreement

Re: Non-empty elements

2005-05-19 Thread Graham
On 19 May 2005, at 2:07 pm, Tim Bray wrote: Some applications (one example is full-text indexers) require a minimum amount of text or (X)HTML to function reliably and predictably. For that reason, it is advisable that each atom:entry element contain a non-empty atom:title element, a

Re: multiple atom:author elements?

2005-05-19 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, May 19, 2005, at 09:41 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: I see this as a problem... 4.1.2 The atom:entry Element * atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element, unless the atom:entry contains an atom:source element which contains an atom:author element, or, in an Atom

Re: multiple atom:author elements?

2005-05-19 Thread Eric Scheid
On 20/5/05 2:10 PM, Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we do allow multiple authors, we might want to put a warning in that consuming applications MAY ignore some of them if more than one is supplied. As long as we do that, and perhaps even if not, I'd be in favor of allowing more