On 5/21/05, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote:
> >>         I believe this was communicated when I wrote:
> >> "Atom should support atom:modified to permit the temporal-ordering of
> >> members of sets that share the same atom:id and atom:updated values."
> 
> Robert Sayre wrote:
> > No, that's not what you communicated. How can I temporally order atom
> > entries with different IDs but the same atom:updated value? atom:id
> > and atom:modified are completely unrelated.
> > I don't know what the problem is, but the answer is atom:modified!
> 
>         Robert, it is clear that your disdain for the current discussions
> has driven you to the point where you are no longer even reading the posts
> to which you respond. This is not productive.
>         I have said *nothing* about the temporal ordering of "atom entries
> with different IDs". I have only written about the problem of providing
> temporal ordering of atom entries that "share the same atom:id and
> atom:updated values."
>         I repeat (with a few added words to make it even more clear):
> 
> "Atom should support atom:modified to permit the temporal-ordering of
>  members of sets whose members share the same atom:id and atom:updated
>  values."

So, it's about disambiguating versions of an entry, right?

Robert Sayre

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