--On December 23, 2005 11:31:22 PM +0100 Henry Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you can't have a link pointing from an entry to an id, without losing some > very important information. We need something more specific. We need a link > pointing from A to C as shown by the blue line.
Some people will need that in the guts of their publishing system. Why do we need it in Atom? Is there something essential that subscribers cannot do because this isn't represented? This sounds like something needed for the publishing/translation workflow, not for the general readership. Extended provenance information is sometimes needed, but there is almost no limit to that. It certainly does not stop at translation, source, and translator. I'm reading a new translation of Andersen's tales where "Thumbelina" is "Inchelina" because the translator knew the right dialect of Danish. That is significant, but does it need to be in Atom? The semantics here should be exactly the same as for dates -- the date means what the publisher thinks it means. Same for language info. Trying to get more exact means that the model will be wrong for some publishers that generate completely legal Atom. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Software Architect, Verity
