Walter Underwood wrote:
--On August 30, 2005 1:49:57 AM -0400 Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I’m sorry, but I can’t go on without complaining. Microsoft has proposed extensions which turn RSS V2.0 feeds into lists and we’ve got folk who are proposing much the same for Atom (i.e. stateful, incremental or partitioned feeds)… I think they are wrong. Feeds aren’t lists and Lists aren’t feeds.The Atom spec says: This specification assigns no significance to the order of atom:entry elements within the feed. One could read that to mean that feeds are fundamentally unordered or that Atom doesn't say what the order means.
Is not logical order, if any, determined by the datetime of the published (or updated) element?
Other RSS formats are ordered, either implicitly or explicity (RSS 1.0). For interoperatility, lots of software is going to treat Atom as ordered. Otherwise, it is not possible to go from Atom to RSS 1.0.
I assume you mean from RSS 1.0 to Atom. :-) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre Jabber Software Foundation http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml
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