Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-23 Thread James M Snell
Antone Roundy wrote: I think a ranking without a domain is pretty much useless--or at least likely to lead to problems downstream--so that case doesn't need to be covered. More on that below. Agreed. xhtml:html ... xhtml:body atom:feed atom:idFeed1/atom:id

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread James M Snell
This could all get rather complicated very quickly. My primary objective is to address known use cases for ordered feeds (my netflix queue feed[1] for example), most of which are structured as complete datasets that are non-incremental in nature. I'm not convinced that I necessarily want to

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread Antone Roundy
On Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 11:43 PM, James M Snell wrote: feed xmlns:i=urn:ranking i:domain{domain}/i:domain I was thinking yesterday of suggesting that feed/id be used the way you're using i:domain. Which is better is probably a matter of whether ranking domains that span multiple

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread James Holderness
James M Snell wrote: This could all get rather complicated very quickly. My primary objective is to address known use cases for ordered feeds (my netflix queue feed[1] for example), most of which are structured as complete datasets that are non-incremental in nature. I realise that this

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread James M Snell
Antone Roundy wrote: On Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 11:43 PM, James M Snell wrote: feed xmlns:i=urn:ranking i:domain{domain}/i:domain I was thinking yesterday of suggesting that feed/id be used the way you're using i:domain. Which is better is probably a matter of whether ranking

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, September 22, 2005, at 10:20 AM, James M Snell wrote: Antone Roundy wrote: I was thinking yesterday of suggesting that feed/id be used the way you're using i:domain. Which is better is probably a matter of whether ranking domains that span multiple feeds will be useful or not.

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 14/09/2005, at 1:06 PM, David Powell wrote: I'm probably on my own, but I expected Atom's statement that This specification assigns no significance to the order of atom:entry elements within the feed was non-negotiable and couldn't be changed by extensions. This seems more like potential

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-22 Thread Mark Nottingham
On 14/09/2005, at 1:06 PM, David Powell wrote: How will this interact with the sliding-window/feed-history interpretation of feeds? The natural order assigned by this extension seems incompatible with the implied date order that would be implied by two feed documents, polled over some period

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 21/9/05 1:05 PM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ranking is part of the entry metadata. If an entry falls off the feed, there is no effect on the ranking metadata. With partial feed retrieval, ordering could be performed over the entire set of entries. How does this help (eg)

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-21 Thread James Holderness
Marking entries as having no rank sounds like a nice idea, but I don't think it's feasible in the long run. In order to erase ranking effectively from previous entries, the content provider needs to double their feed size potentially. And if a user misses out on a rank update they could end

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 21/9/05 9:35 PM, James Holderness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marking entries as having no rank sounds like a nice idea, but I don't think it's feasible in the long run. thinking more ... I think the way to handle this is that the client application could weight the ranking with the age of

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-21 Thread James Holderness
I had considered something along those lines, but it seemed to me to be a bit vague. I suspect it would produce adequate results in the majority of cases, but I'd prefer something that gave the content provider finer control. I like the idea of being able to say exactly where in a feed an

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-20 Thread James M Snell
Eric Scheid wrote: On 15/9/05 6:06 AM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eg - An Atom library or server that doesn't know about this extension is free to not preserve the entry order, and yet to retain the fi:ordered / element, even though this will have corrupted the data.

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-20 Thread Thomas Broyer
James M Snell wrote: Complete example feed ... i:ranking default=yes order=descendingpriority/i:ranking i:ranking order=ascendingindex/i:ranking i:ranking order=descendinghttp://www.example.com/ranking/foo/i:ranking entry ... idC/id i:rank scheme=priority10/i:rank i:rank scheme=index3/i:rank

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-20 Thread Eric Scheid
On 21/9/05 5:18 AM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance feed entry ... i:rank10/i:rank /entry entry ... i:rank5/i:rank /entry /feed What happens when entries fall off the bottom ... do their rankings expire? How does that work with the

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-20 Thread James M Snell
Eric Scheid wrote: On 21/9/05 5:18 AM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance feed entry ... i:rank10/i:rank /entry entry ... i:rank5/i:rank /entry /feed What happens when entries fall off the bottom ... do their rankings expire? How does that work with

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-15 Thread Eric Scheid
On 15/9/05 6:06 AM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eg - An Atom library or server that doesn't know about this extension is free to not preserve the entry order, and yet to retain the fi:ordered / element, even though this will have corrupted the data. very good point. e.

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-14 Thread David Powell
Monday, September 12, 2005, 5:55:20 PM, James M Snell wrote: I've updated the draft that defines an extension that can be used to indicate that the order of entries within a Feed should be considered significant. How will this interact with the sliding-window/feed-history interpretation

Re: FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-14 Thread James M Snell
David, Excellent comments. David Powell wrote: How will this interact with the sliding-window/feed-history interpretation of feeds? The natural order assigned by this extension seems incompatible with the implied date order that would be implied by two feed documents, polled over some

FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-12 Thread James M Snell
I've updated the draft that defines an extension that can be used to indicate that the order of entries within a Feed should be considered significant. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-02.txt Example, feed xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom;

FYI: Updated Index draft

2005-09-12 Thread James M Snell
I've updated the draft that defines an extension that can be used to indicate that the order of entries within a Feed should be considered significant. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-02.txt Example, feed xmlns=http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom;