atom:modified : Reducing the cruft

2005-05-21 Thread David Powell
I detect that a lot of opposition to atom:modified comes from the fact that it is a REQUIRED element and that many of the publishers actually putting it in the feed and paying for the bandwidth don't intend using it frequently? Would it help if we said that if the atom:modified element is

Re: atom:modified : Reducing the cruft

2005-05-21 Thread Anne van Kesteren
David Powell wrote: I detect that a lot of opposition to atom:modified comes from the fact that it is a REQUIRED element and that many of the publishers actually putting it in the feed and paying for the bandwidth don't intend using it frequently? Would it help if we said that if the

Re: atom:modified : Reducing the cruft

2005-05-21 Thread Eric Scheid
On 21/5/05 5:32 PM, David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it help if we said that if the atom:modified element is absent, its value MAY be taken from the atom:updated element? (or to put it another way: atom:modified MAY be omitted if its value is equivalent to the value of

Re: atom:modified : Reducing the cruft

2005-05-21 Thread Robert Sayre
I detect that a lot of opposition to atom:modified comes from the fact A lot of the opposition comes from the fact the WG found it useless, months ago. Allowing multiple atom:ids in a feed doesn't change that. You want to sit here and talk about atom:modified for another month? For an optional