On 10/4/05 12:52 AM, "Eric Scheid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > could it be reasonable that an empty element gets displayed as empty, but an > absent element triggers a fall back mechanism (eg. use the <summary> > element, and if that is missing display the <link rel=alternate> resource?
The first RSS Reader I used (SharpReader) would retrieve the linked resource and display that in the absence of content (and presumably of summary too if that distinction had been made at the time). I enjoyed reading that way and so, as a result, the first feed I offered for my own blog was a titles-only feed. While I have long since added a full-content feed, I continue to get new subscribers to the titles-only feed. James -- James Tauber http://jtauber.com/ journeyman of some http://jtauber.com/blog/
