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Re: Atom Notification Protocol Published

Requiring atom:head in entries posted without an enclosing feed is
fine.  I'll go ahead and make that change.


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 02:42:34 -0500, Bob Wyman <bob@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would strongly recommend that it be required that an atom:entry that is
> published with no enclosing atom:feed MUST contain an atom:head element. If
> this is not the case, the published atom:entries will be essentially
> anonymous and thus largely useless. Virtually every Atom processor in
> existence requires elements of atom:head when handling entries. I can
> imagine very few applications (other than closed ones) that could make use
> of atom:entries that do not contain atom:head elements and are not
> themselves enclosed in atom:feeds.
> 
>                 bob wyman
> 
> 


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