Re: Tombstones

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@xxxxxxxx>]

+1

FWIW, I think a small individual submission on the standards track  
would be the way to go here, defining a single new feed-level element  
(preferably in the Atom namespace; I hope we left ourselves enough  
wiggle room to do that!).

James?


On 19/12/2007, at 7:10 AM, James M Snell wrote:

> Which brings us back to one of my original points: it would make the
> most sense to have a single solution that works well across as many  
> use
> cases as possible.  Representing tombstones using x:deleted does that.
> Representing tombstones using atom:entry does not.
>
> - James
>
> Joe Gregorio wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Those are arguments that actually make sense. I was thinking of
> > tombstones solely in the case of AtomPub collections, but in the
> > case of syndication the
> >
> > <x:deleted>
> > <id>tag:example.org,2007:/the/only/useful/thing/here</id>
> > </x:deleted>
> >
> > markup seems like a better fit.
> >
> >    -joe


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