[Design] RSS in Cosmo for event change notification

[Ted Leung]

On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 4/10/06, Mitchell Kapor <mitch at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> Is it easy to develop a feed that somehow distinguishes between
>> additions, modifications, and deletions?
>
> it would require an extension to the atom specification but wouldn't
> be particularly difficult. however, it's easy enough for a client to
> recognize all of these cases given the information that cosmo feeds
> already include.

I don't think you'd need an extension to Atom.  You can just create  
some new elements in a namespace and stick them in there.   The  
inability to namespace elements was one of technical justifications  
for forking Atom from RSS

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Ted Leung                 Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF)