On 7/9/05 11:09 PM, "Roland Jungwirth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When going through the Atom specification regarding syntax > (http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt), I > came to point 4.1.1 "The atom:feed Element". This states that every > atom:feed element has to have one (and only one) atom:id element but can > have 0:n atom:entry elements. The atom:id element as an *immediate* child of atom:feed is the ID for the feed, while the atom:id element found as children of atom:entry elements are the ID's of their respective atom:entry. Completely different things. > "If multiple atom:entry elements with the same atom:id value appear in > an Atom Feed Document, they represent the same entry." Consider this (abbreviated) example: <feed> <id>some-id-for-the-feed</id> ... <entry> <id>id-for-entry-1</id> ... </entry> <entry> <id>id-for-entry-2</id> <updated>2005-09-06T01:00:00Z</updated> ... </entry> <entry> <id>id-for-entry-2</id> <updated>2005-09-06T01:05:00Z</updated> ... </entry> </feed> This feed contains three atom:entry elements, two of which are actually separate representations of the same source entry, one at 1.00 AM, and one from five minutes later. In practice you probably won't see a mix like the above. e.
