On Friday, July 08, 2011 04:44:20 AM Sergey Dobrov wrote: > On 07/08/2011 04:37 AM, Justin Karneges wrote: > > b) if RSM is used by the server, then items are returned in a > > node-specific > > > > order. > > What means "node-specific"?
I just mean, the ordering would be defined by the node type or node implementation. For example, XEP-0277 (microblogging) might want to say that if RSM is used, then items are ordered by modified time ascending. However, other nodes defined in other XEPs might have different orderings based on criteria other than dates. > > d) if neither RSM nor max_items are used, then items are returned in > > > > unspecified order. > > Not all payloads can be sorted on client side. I think that we need to > return some metadata too including creation and modification times as > well as item publisher. Ah probably. I think this is a separate issue from RSM though. > Add a "Item ordering" paragraph to XEP-0060? I think we just need to complete the description of RSM. There is a strong feeling, though, that we should not add to XEP-0060 since it is already too long. However, this dangling underspecified RSM in the spec is a bit odd IMO. Here are the options I suggest: 1) Add remaining description of RSM into XEP-0060. 2) Remove RSM from XEP-0060 (the XEP gets shorter!) and create a separate XEP. Justin
