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The computation of the atom:updated timestamp for *updated* entries (see <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4287.html#rfc.section.4.2.15>) surprisingly depends on the presence of <ins>/<del> markup (see <http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/interactive-elements.html#atom>, Step 15/13). There's nothing really *wrong* about that, but I think the specification needs to clarify that if you don't use <ins>/<del> (with timestamps) on an updated entry, the generated atom:updated will be incorrect. Furthermore, Step 15/15: "If publication date and update date both still have no value, then let them both value a value that is a valid global date and time string representing the global date and time of the moment that this algorithm was invoked." appears to handle the case where no date information is available at all, letting it default to the current date. Again, generating feeds where atom:updated varies with every run of the algorithm seems to be a bad idea to me and supports the argument that producing output for insufficient input data is problematic.
Does anyone disagree that producing output for insufficient input data is problematic? You make it sound like it's controversial or something...
(In reply to comment #1) > Does anyone disagree that producing output for insufficient input data is > problematic? You make it sound like it's controversial or something... If it's not controversial why not state upfront that the algorithm may produce invalid data, and thus before publishing it should be verified?
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http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#atom still has the spec text, and has an issue tracker entry form pointing to *this* issue tracker. Please fix either the spec, or the way you use the issue tracker for your spec.
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