James M Snell wrote:
if I point my newsreader to a feed document that has a
incremental=true, I would look for a start link. I would process the
start feed then begin walking my way through the next links to build
the history. The start feed MAY have the most recent entries or MAY
have the oldest entries, it doesn't matter.
It does matter if I don't want my newsreader to reconstruct the entire
feed state and rather stop when it has read X entries or has reached
Y-day old entries.
There shouldn't be any requirement that the entries in a feed (or even
the feed documents themselves) have to be in a specific order in order
to reconstruct the history.
It should (not SHOULD!) however be based on atom:updated or something
similar (e.g. my-ext:last-modified)
--
Thomas Broyer
