Re: DontSyndicate Pace

["Phil Ringnalda" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Bray wrote:
> Among other things, I'd like to use Atom to post a
> picture to my blog, but then I want to reference the picture
> from an ordinary HTML post rather than have it show up itself
> in the syndication feed.  So I proposed adding
> syndicate="true|false" to <atom:entry>, so that you can do
> non-syndicated posts (I assume this would be used mostly in
> POSTS to the feed rather than GETS of it).

In what way is a piece of content which will not appear in the syndication
feed (and from later discussion, not appear alone in the web page, only as
part of an entry) an entry? I can certainly see the uses for the API taking
and giving non-entry things, since template editing was one of the most
useful things the Blogger API did, but I don't think element names are so
expensive that we really need to call an image an entry, or call a template
an entry, or call a stylesheet an entry. Wouldn't it be simpler and less
likely to bite a busy developer if we just have <atom:entry> and
<atom:thing>?

Phil Ringnalda