Assuming the same document references are limited to the content, and
the content is rendered to the user as discrete entries, the same
document references are not going to be an issue. This is actually an
issue with atom and rss in general, not just APP. The important thing
that we really need to worry about here are relative URI's and same doc
refs contained in things like the atom link element.
Yogesh Mujumdar wrote:
But what if i am aggregating entries into a single feed. e.g news items
from different websites?
On 1/30/06, *James M Snell* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Agreed. folks that process feeds (including content) as complete
documents would need to be aware of the potential problems, but overall,
it should be fine.
Tim Bray wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, 2006, at 2:00 PM, James M Snell wrote:
>
>>
>> Because of the way that most feed readers process content, this is
>> probably unlikely to be a problem; however, there still is the
>> potential for issues. For instance, what if this entry is
included in
>> an atom feed that contains another entry whose xhtml content
uses the
>> same anchor id's?
>
> Well, entries are typically viewed one at a time, so in practice it's
> not apt to be a problem. I think same-doc refs should be just
fine in
> general. -Tim
>
--
-yogesh
