Re: PaceDatePublished: meta-question about other namespaces

[Antone Roundy <antone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 04:29  PM, Graham wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2004, at 6:07 am, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > If <updated> is required and <published> is not, I
> > guess things would still work but it does seem
> > bass-ackwards to me.
>
> Yes. Everything is published initially, not everything is later  
> updated.
Technically true, but it's not much of stretch to think of initial  
publishing as the first "change" that the publisher wishes to bring to  
the attention of subscribers.  We COULD call the element  
atom:last-time-something-happened-to-this-entry-that-the-publisher- 
really-wants-noticed, but it's easier to go with the less technically  
precise, but much shorter atom:updated.

Whether to require published or updated is a decision best based on two  
factors: which would be most useful, and which can be most reliably  
provided by publishers.