Re: Tombstones

[James M Snell <jasnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill de hOra wrote:
> James M Snell wrote:
> 
>> That said, what is the value of reusing atom:entry in this case?
>> [snip]
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1: what you deleted was an entry.
> 

Ok, but why does that mean we have to use atom:entry to represent the
thing that no longer exists?

> 2: you might want to know the properties of the entry that was deleted,
> not just its name.
> 

There's no reason this data could not be added as children of the
x:deleted element.  Keep in mind that atom:entry has minimum content
requirements so you'd either have to keep around a minimum amount of
metadata or start passing around useless cruft.

- James

> cheers
> Bill
> 
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