On 1/14/07, David Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I agree that it is important to distinguish between feeds
and feed documents, and this is why I think that feed level inheritance of licenses should be dropped as it is incompatible with Atom.
Inheritance can't be "incompatible" with Atom since Atom defines it. I do agree with you, however, if you argue that Atom would have been cleaner without inheritance. Without inheritance, feed level meta-data would only apply to the "collection" which contains entries and not to the entries themselves. Without inheritance, we wouldn't need atom:source -- we would have only needed atom:provenance (a simple link to an entry's origin feed similar to the source element in RSS. Note: Synthetic feed producers still would have wanted atom:source as a convenient way to reduce the need to repeatedly fetch feed documents to get atom:title values.) However, folk really wanted to keep inheritance of the feed metadata and so we ended up having to define something more complex.
bob wyman
