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PaceAtomIDAsString


Abstract

Better characterize the requirements around atom:id. Nearly identical to PaceBasicAtomID except it uses strings instead of URIs.

Status

Open

Rationale

Capture consensus from the mailing-list and several other Paces; the chief sources are mailing list contributions from [WWW]Dare Obasanjo and [WWW]Tim Bray.

IDs can be unique and unchanging more easily as text strings than as URIs. The people who want their IDs to be URIs can, and the people who want to use other unique and unchanging text don't have to force that into a URI structure.

Proposal

Change sections 4.2.6 and 5.5 of the format specification to read:

4.2.6 "atom:id" Element

5.5 "atom:id" Element

Impacts

Slightly increases complexity of generating atom feeds and entries since an identifier other than permalink must be created for each feed and entry.

Significantly increases the ability of feed aggregators and other atom processors to detect and manage new atom entries and feeds.

Notes


Posted by: PaulHoffman

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