Subject: FYI: Updated Index draft

From: James M Snell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:43:27 -0700

I've updated the draft that defines an extension that can be used to 
indicate that the order of entries within a Feed should be considered 
significant.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-feed-index-02.txt

Example,

<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
      xmlns:fi="http://purl.org/syndication/index/1.0">
  ...
  <fi:ordered sort="descending" />
  <entry>
    <id>tag:entry:1</id>
    ...
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:entry:2</id>
    ...
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:entry:3</id>
    ...
  </entry>
</feed>

The fi:ordered element indicates that the order of the entries as 
presented in the feed should be considered to be significant.  The @sort 
attribute indicates the default sort order for those entries.  A value 
of "descending" indicates that the entries should be presented 
last-to-first.  A value of "ascending" indcates that the entries should 
be presented first-to-last.

- James