Re: author tag

[Danny Ayers <danny666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill de hÓra wrote:

> Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
>
> > I agree that it might be complicated, but to cover all the use cases 
> > of  Atom, I think we need it.  >
>
> >
>
> > The current draft is missing some explanation on  the author 
> > inheritance from atom:feed to atom:entry, 
>
>
> Perhaps that because it's complicated ;)


Yep, I think danbri's spotted a hole for people to fall down, multiple 
authors + inheritance would be very confusing, and who said what is 
probably the part of the whole thing we need to be clearest about.


> > but it basically goes  something like this: «If atom:entry contains 
> > no atom:author element,  atom:entry/atom:author is considered to be 
> > the entry's author».
>
>
> Why not just markup the information explicitly? The less of a 
> processing model we require around the Atom format the more useful it 
> will be (methinks).


Extra bytes, but that's starting to look like the lesser of the evils.

> I have certain fears that we will have lots of feeds without any 
> authors  in either atom:feed nor atom:entry, if we make the author 
> element  completely optional at all levels. Should we at least require 
> someone to  take authorship and responsibility for the feed?
> There's perhaps no need. At a web arch level it's implied by the feed 
> URIs.


Hmm, responsibility maybe, but authorship doesn't follow for composite 
feeds.


Cheers,
Danny.

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