On Saturday, February 5, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Robert Sayre wrote:
Okay, I don't imagine you're going to like this, but here's a possibility:Part of our charter is to define a format suitable for archiving feeds.
Right, and breaking the feed format isn't the way to do it. Since you're advocating versioning, what are your plans for versioning the state of the feed itself? What if the title changes? It would be better to archive a series of feed documents.
<aggregation>
<feed>
<head>
<id>1</id>
<title>Foo Feed</title>
</head>
<entry>
...
</entry>
<entry>
...
</entry>
...
</feed>
<feed>
<head>
<id>1</id>
<title>Foo Fighter Feed</title>
</head>
<entry>
...
</entry>
<entry>
...
</entry>
...
</feed>
<feed>
<head>
<id>1</id>
<title>Bar Fight Feed</title>
</head>
<entry>
...
</entry>
<entry>
...
</entry>
...
</feed>
</aggregation>