Re: hAtom question

On 10/3/08 10:20, "David Janes" <davidjanesblogmatrix.com> wrote:


> 
> - I'll be doing the hAtom 0.2 stuff Real Soon Now 
> - you can safely assume that the requirement for having
the Author
> element is going to disappear; hAtom 0.2 will have a
rule for deciding
> what the default is, though what that rule is is a
mystery

Super - makes life much easier (author = site domain
name?!?)
> 
> The updated date is a little more problematic. My first
inclination
> would be to say find a way to squeeze it in there. My
second
> inclination ... and this is entirely my opinion and
probably rubs a
> lot of people the wrong way ... is just to do it
without the updated
> element and see if the spec catches up with the usage.

Yup, that was were we were heading

Thanks mate
> 
> Regards, etc...
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Michael Smethurst
> <Michael.Smethurstbbc.co.uk> wrote:
>> Morning
>> 
>> The schema section of the hAtom spec [1] says:
>> 
>> "author. required using hCard. [*]"
>> 
>> But the entry author section [2] says:
>> 
>> "an Entry SHOULD have at least one Entry
Author element"
>> 
>> Should this be a MUST?
>> 
>> Also in a blog post [3] David Janes suggests that
hAtom 0.2 may drop the
>> author and updated/created requirements. Any idea
if/when this will happen?
>> 
>> I'd like to add hAtom to all our episode
aggregations [4] on
>> bbc.co.uk/programmes and authorship and dating are
tricky
>> 
>> Sorry if I'm being a numpty - just a bit confused
>> 
>> michael
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://micr
oformats.org/wiki/hatom#Schema
>> 
>> [2] http:
//microformats.org/wiki/hatom#Entry_Author
>> 
>> [3] http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com/:entry:blogm
atrix-2008-03-05-0000/
>> 
>> [4] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/formats/documentaries
>> 
>> 
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Michael Smethurst
<Michael.Smethurstbbc.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  On 10/3/08 10:20, "David Janes"
<davidjanesblogmatrix.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > - I'll be doing the hAtom 0.2 stuff Real Soon Now

>  > - you can safely assume that the requirement for
having the Author
>  > element is going to disappear; hAtom 0.2 will
have a rule for deciding
>  > what the default is, though what that rule is is
a mystery
>
>  Super - makes life much easier (author = site domain
name?!?)

That's one option that was discussed. Another was combining
it with
some sort of "anon" name, such as is used in
hReview. After further
discussion, we decided to research what people do in the
Atom world,
as they must come across this problem occasionally too!

Regards, etc...



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