--On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:38:03 AM -0400 Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am willing to concede that there are valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore the requirement for a summary. Are you willing to concede that there are implications to such a decision that must be understood and carefully weighed before chosing to omit a summary?
What are the interoperability considerations that must be carefully weighed? I think the "full implications" you're worried about are non-technical.
It certainly makes the feed much less useful for some kinds of applications. I work on a search engine, and, for us, a titles-only feed is very different one with content or summaries. A titles-only feed is basically a pretty version of "ls". The engine follows the links, but does not index the document. With summaries or content, the feed is a document in its own right, and it makes sense to index it under its own URL.
A search engine won't ignore a titles-only feed, but it is less likely to treat it as a first-class document.
Now I'm going to go re-read the PACE to see where I am on +/-.
wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect Verity Ultraseek
