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Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> Having a publication date and a last updated date would be goodness.
> It is annoying that the various flavors of RSS have only one date field
> for items and it is optional.
> On the other hand, I think having 3 dates as ATOM does is bordering
> on the ridiculous.
Major news providers delivering news to outlets like newsrooms or Web sites
use more than three dates. Here are four common ones, off the top of my head:
1. The date/time the news item was originally created.
2. The date/time the news item was last updated.
3. The date/time the news item is allowed to be published (the embargo date).
4. The date/time after which the story may no longer be published.
There are many others, such as the date/time of the event(s) described in
the news item, and the date/time the news item was made available to the
subscriber. Right now, the news industry is not looking too seriously at
Atom or RSS except for end-user delivery, though, as far as I know.
If they do give up NewsML and switch to RSS or Atom, they'll either have to
adjust their rights-management business model drastically, or RSS/Atom will
have to change to accomodate them.
All the best,
David
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