Thomas Broyer wrote:
Compare their atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"self" and @type="application/atom+xml"]/@href, they'll point you to the "start" of the "list", the one whose author and copyright apply.
On the whole I tend to agree, but since there isn't a "self" link in either of the RSS formats and Mark would like this extension to be format neutral, he would either have to introduce an equivalent element into the spec or strongly suggest that RSS feeds include a "self" atom:link. Technically it isn't even required that all Atom feeds have such a link, so either way it's something worth clarifying.
(Actually, author and copyright should really appear in "history feed documents" as well, aggregators shouldn't "apply copyright" from one document to other documents linked from it).
Technically yes, but try and imagine how an aggregator might handle that sort of thing. The feed may be made up of a collection of documents, but from the user's point of view it's all just one big feed. A copyright message is the sort of thing that would show up once in a properties dialog for the feed, or somewhere in the header or footer in a "newspaper" view. It's highly unlikely an aggregator would try and track multiple copyright messages and display them on a per item basis.
As for author, if you've got item-level author elements you should be ok, but if there aren't, the aggregator is quite likely to take the last feed-level author it received and apply it to all subsequent items. It can be argued that that's a bug, but it's not unreasonable to imagine than many aggregators might do such a thing unless explicitly told not to.
Regards James
