Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-25 Thread Thomas Broyer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer [2005-05-24 15:15]: A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer [2005-05-24 09:05]: c) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: contributor: C [...] c) The entry inherits the author but overrides the contributor. I'm also open to

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-24 Thread Thomas Broyer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-24 01:40]: Consider too a feed which has both authors and contributors at the feed level, an entry with neither authors or contributors (simple case of inheritance), and another entry with a single author and no contributors

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-24 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-24 09:05]: a) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: no author not contributor b) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: author: C c) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: contributor: C d) feed:

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-24 Thread Thomas Broyer
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer [2005-05-24 09:05]: c) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: contributor: C [...] c) The entry inherits the author but overrides the contributor. I'm also open to considering it invalid. [...] The rule you propose for contributor

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-24 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-24 15:15]: A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Thomas Broyer [2005-05-24 09:05]: c) feed: author: A contributor: B entry: contributor: C [...] c) The entry inherits the author but overrides the contributor. I'm also open to considering

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread Eric Scheid
On 24/5/05 9:02 AM, Thomas Broyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is mostly when there are author(s) without contributor in the feed (resp. entry) and contributor(s) without author in the entry (resp. feed). Is the entry author-less (resp. contributor-less) or is it inheriting the feed

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread Graham
On 24 May 2005, at 12:31 am, Eric Scheid wrote: Second area of concern with writing the spec text - the atom:source element needs to be mentioned in the text about inheritance. My understanding is that inheritance draws first from atom:source (if it exists), and then atom:feed. I'd say

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Sayre
On 5/23/05, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/5/05 9:56 AM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (unrelated question: what's with this plus sign atomLink+ in the atom:source production?) well spotted. That means oneOrMore, while * means zeroOrMore. + is accurate for format-08,

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread Eric Scheid
On 24/5/05 10:36 AM, Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/05, Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/5/05 9:56 AM, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (unrelated question: what's with this plus sign atomLink+ in the atom:source production?) well spotted. That means

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Sayre
If an atom:entry is copied from one feed into another feed, then the source atom:feed's metadata (all child elements of atom:feed other than the atom:entry elements) MAY be preserved within the copied entry by adding an atom:source child element, if it is not already present in the entry, and

Re: inheritance issues (was: Author and contributor)

2005-05-23 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-05-24 01:40]: Consider too a feed which has both authors and contributors at the feed level, an entry with neither authors or contributors (simple case of inheritance), and another entry with a single author and no contributors (does the entry inherit the