Graham wrote:
On 13 Oct 2005, at 8:02 pm, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
If you want to ship a complete representation, you ship an
atom:entry, and if the resource is empty, then that atom:content
is empty.
If the atom:entry has no atom:content, then that always means
that it is a partial representation only.
Point to any text in the spec that backs this up.
"4.2.13 The "atom:summary" element is a Text construct that conveys a short
summary, abstract, or excerpt of an entry. "
To me, that implies that there exists a resource somewhere that is a more
complete representation of what is being provided in the summary. If there
is no atom:content element then the entry can't possibly contain that full
representation. Surely then that would make it partial representation?
In reality though I've seen feeds with atom:content elements that wouldn't
be considered complete by any stretch of the imagination. I've also seen
entries with no atom:content where the full text is included in the
atom:summary. For an Atom processor there are really no guarantees about
anything regardless of what the spec may or may not say.
Regards
James
