* Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-20 17:50]: > <contributor> > <category term="Author"/> > <name>Barnable Foo</name> > <.../> > </contributor>
+1 Very elegant. As for the inheritance problem this does bring up: the current spec implicitly defines that no inheritance from the feed takes place when an entry has its own author element, because there is only ever one author for any entry, so if itâs the one at the entry level, it canât be the one at the feed level. I suggest that the same approach be chosen in case of this atom:contributor element, just explicitly. Trying to specify a merging scheme here would be boiling the ocean. However, it does pose a problem of default semantics. Do we define particular categories in the spec? If we donât, do we define a default category to be assumed in absence of explicit category elements in the document? If we do, do we define such a default? Lastly, the atom:byline should be optional for those publishers who wont to control presentation, IMO. Regards, -- Aristotle
