* Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-22 05:25]: > If Atom provides all we need, lets not do something else unless > there is a *very* good argument to do so.
I’m not inventing anything. Atom Entry Documents are part of the spec and Atom Feed Documents may legally be empty. And a consumer of a stream according to your proposition does not get away without implementing some special ability to be able to interpret it correctly anyway – you are using “plain Atom” at the cost of requiring a specifically abled XML parser. My proposition requires a trivial amount of extra semantics implemented at the application logic level; yours requires extra semantics at the protocol logic level (the protocol being XML). I think doing this in application logic is so cheap that reaching for the protocol logic is unwarranted. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
