editorial: atom:author and atom:contributor inheritance?

2005-05-12 Thread Eric Scheid
nsidered to apply to the entry. > ... but no similar text is to be found against the spec for atom:author or atom:contributor. I do see this ... >atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:author element, >unless the atom:entry contains an atom:source element which contains

Re: Exactly one atom:contributor?

2005-02-03 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 3, 2005, at 2:03 PM, Norman Walsh wrote: I find the constraint that an atom:feed or atom:entry can contain at most one atom:contributor a little odd. Suppose Tom, Dick, and Harry work on an entry, why can only two of them get credit (one as author and one as contributor). Why am I not

Re: Exactly one atom:contributor?

2005-02-03 Thread Robert Sayre
Norman Walsh wrote: I find the constraint that an atom:feed or atom:entry can contain at most one atom:contributor a little odd. Suppose Tom, Dick, and Harry work on an entry, why can only two of them get credit (one as author and one as contributor). Why am I not allowed to indicate that they

Exactly one atom:contributor?

2005-02-03 Thread Norman Walsh
I find the constraint that an atom:feed or atom:entry can contain at most one atom:contributor a little odd. Suppose Tom, Dick, and Harry work on an entry, why can only two of them get credit (one as author and one as contributor). Why am I not allowed to indicate that they each contributed to the

atom:contributor cardinality in -05

2005-01-30 Thread Eric Scheid
> atom:head elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:contributor element. > atom:entry elements MUST NOT contain more than one atom:contributor element. they look like a copy/pasto, especially since above those lines there is > & atomContributor* e.

Re: atom:contributor (correction)

2005-01-14 Thread David Powell
[corrected typo] The semantics of atom:contributor weren't obvious to me. Is this correct: atom:feed/atom:head/atom:author is a syntactic default for all entries that are missing an author. atom:feed/atom:head/atom:contributor is a set of regular contributors and authors of a feed,

atom:contributor

2005-01-14 Thread David Powell
The semantics of atom:contributor weren't obvious to me. Is this correct: atom:feed/atom:head/atom:author is a syntactic default for all entries that are missing an author. atom:feed/atom:head/atom:contributor is a set of regular contributors and authors of a feed, which may or may not