On 5/23/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 23 May 2005, at 4:52 pm, Robert Sayre wrote:
>
> > Exactly. It's extremely easy to think of cases that don't fit the
> > model proposed. Consider the "Huffington Post", where the feed might
> > list Arianna Huffington as the author, and everybody else as a
> > contributor. But, it would make sense to list her as a contributor as
> > well.
>
> Why? She's already credited as the author. If you can explain why
> that isn't completely redundant and confusing to software, a gold
> star to you.
Authorship is confusing to software, silly.
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In section 4.2.3, append to:
The "atom:contributor" element is a Person construct that indicates a
person or other entity who contributed to the entry or feed.
The text:
and who is not also a named author.
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Robert Sayre
