--On February 3, 2005 11:21:50 PM -0500 Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Powell wrote: >> It looks like this might have got lost accidently when the >> atom:head element was introduced. Previously Atom 0.3 said [1]: >>> Ordering of the element children of atom:feed element MUST NOT be >>> considered significant. > +1. > The order of entries in an Atom feed should NOT be significant. This > is, I think, a very, very important point to make.
-1 Is this a joke? This is like saying that the order of the entries in my mailbox is not significant. Note that ordering a mailbox by date is not the same thing as its native order. Feed order is the only way we have to show the publication order of items in a feed. I just looked at all my subscriptions, and there is only one where the order might not be relevant, a security test for RSS readers. That is clearly not within Atom's charter, so it doesn't count. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect, Verity
