On Mon, 16 May 2005 01:16:21 +0200, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > An even half-way intelligent user agent would do something like > display a "read more" link or button when it displays a summary, > to alert the user that there is more to be read, either at the > atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'alternate'] location or in a supplied > atom:content.
I think this is the key criterion albeit not a particularly formal one. Which got me thinking: say I provide both a summary-only feed and a full-content feed. I believe it is reasonable to: 1. include a summary element in my full-content feed in addition to the content element; and 2. have some (short) entries in my summary-only feed which contain a content element but no summary. In other words: 1. "full-content feed" doesn't preclude the existence of a summary element but there will never be a summary element without a content element. 2. "summary-only feed" really means that the included summary/content won't exceed some arbitrary length. If the content is short enough to fit this, I'll use a content element, even though this is a "summary-only" feed because the content is complete---there is no "read more". James -- James Tauber http://jtauber.com/ journeyman of some http://jtauber.com/blog/
