RE: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-12 Thread James Yenne
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Holderness Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:02 AM To: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Reader 'updated' semantics Stephane Bortzmeyer: OP. In Atom, it seems to me that 2) is the only reasonable choice (1 or 3 would require to store the content

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:58:12PM -, James Holderness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 31 lines which said: There are a couple of options for an aggregator author. They can mark an entry as having changed when 1) the content of the entry has changed; 2) the updated element has

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:35:27AM -0800, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 14 lines which said: There's a word for behavior of RssBandit and Sage: WRONG. Read again my message. Sage does *not* ignore changes of updated. Its behaviour is perfectly right. It just displays

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 05:32:08PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 37 lines which said: I don???t think it???s controversy, so much as that most people apparently simply don???t care whether an entry they???ve already seen has changed. It is also may be because

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-11 Thread Bill de hÓra
Tim Bray wrote: On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:07 AM, James M Snell wrote: In RSS there is definite confusion on what constitutes an update. In Atom it is very clear. If updated changes, the item has been updated. No controversy at all. Indeed. There's a word for behavior of RssBandit

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-11 Thread James Holderness
Stephane Bortzmeyer: OP. In Atom, it seems to me that 2) is the only reasonable choice (1 or 3 would require to store the content - or at least a hash - and, if applied blindly, would create many false positives since a simple reformatting of the XML would trigger a change). Read my response

RE: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread James Yenne
To: James M Snell Cc: James Yenne; atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Reader 'updated' semantics On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:08 PM, James M Snell wrote: The updated element is used to indicate when a significant update has occurred to the entry. If you are updating the updated element when you update your

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:06:59AM -0800, James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 39 lines which said: RSS Bandit does not provide an indication of an updated entry since many differ on what constitutes an update and what level of feedback should be provided to the user. Sage

RE: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread James Yenne
Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 7:35 AM To: James Yenne Cc: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Reader 'updated' semantics On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:06:59AM -0800, James Yenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 39 lines which said: RSS Bandit does not provide an indication

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread James Holderness
James Yenne wrote: I'm led to believe there is some controversy here. James' description is what I would expect, and seems straight-forward enough. Is there any thing more to this? There are a couple of options for an aggregator author. They can mark an entry as having changed when 1)

RE: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread James Yenne
Of James Yenne Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:13 AM To: 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' Cc: atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: RE: Reader 'updated' semantics I haven't used Sage, but I would anticipate that entries which have been retrieved initially by a reader are continually checked for changes to the updated

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread James M Snell
. Is there any thing more to this? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:31 PM To: James M Snell Cc: James Yenne; atom-syntax@imc.org Subject: Re: Reader 'updated' semantics On Jan 9, 2006

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:07 AM, James M Snell wrote: In RSS there is definite confusion on what constitutes an update. In Atom it is very clear. If updated changes, the item has been updated. No controversy at all. Indeed. There's a word for behavior of RssBandit and Sage: WRONG.

Re: Reader 'updated' semantics

2006-01-09 Thread Tim Bray
On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:08 PM, James M Snell wrote: The updated element is used to indicate when a significant update has occurred to the entry. If you are updating the updated element when you update your entry, you are doing the right thing. If RSSBandit and FeedDemon are not picking up