The question of inheritance of author/contributor from feed into entry needs
to be disambiguated. I looked from the format-08 text and found that we
already have reasonable wording in section 4.2.4 (The "atom:copyright"
Element). There is also a hint in section 4.2.11 (The "atom:source" Element)
that some other elements should also be inheritable.
Proposal: insert text similar to § 4.2.4 ¶ 3 into
§ 4.2.1 The "atom:author" Element
§ 4.2.2 The "atom:category" Element
§ 4.2.3 The "atom:contributor" Element
------------------------- some relevant snippets -------------------------
4.2.4 The "atom:copyright" Element
> If an atom:entry element does not contain an atom:copyright element,
> then the atom:copyright element of the containing atom:feed element's
> atom:head element, if present, is considered to apply to the entry.
4.1.2 The "atom:entry" Element
> atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element,
> unless the atom:entry contains an atom:source element which contains
> an atom:author element, or, in an Atom Feed Document, the atom:feed
> element contains an atom:author element itself.
... but that doesn't explain that the atom:entry inherits the author from
the feed. It actually suggests that an entry may be author-less, because the
spec text for atom:author only says this:
4.2.11 The "atom:source" Element
> Such metadata SHOULD be preserved if the source atom:feed contains any
> of the child elements atom:author, atom:contributor, atom:copyright, or
> atom:category and those child elements are not present in the source
> atom:entry.
... which calls out atom:category in the same sentence as atom:author,
atom:contributor, and atom:copyright ... which might suggest that
atom:category should also be inherited. I don't recall what the thinking
was, but I'd +1 inheritance of atom:category from atom:feed into atom:entry.
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