* Robin Cover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-22 05:05]: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > That issue is inheritance. > > > > atom:author is the only precedent for it in Atom. > > If "it" in "only precedent for it" refers to inhertance, can > you explain the sense in which "atom:author is the only > precedent" ? > > xml:lang,
Sure, then you can also cite xml:base and possibly more. But these are irrelevant – they they work on a different layer and have no concept of “feed-level” or “entry-level.” They’re possibly better described as annotations at the XML level, as opposed to metadata at the Atom model level. And with both of them being attributes, the cardinality is trivial and known in advance: zero or one. Thus the override mechanism is universally obvious in advance. They have nothing in common with extension elements as per the semantics defined in the Atom Format specification. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
