Re: [xml-dev] best practice for providing newsfeeds ?

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@comcast.net>]

Dare Obasanjo wrote:

> They are orthogonal problems. The problem isn't how to avoid repeating
> an item, it is how to show one has been changed since the last time the
> reader saw it.  
>

I think the idea is that if you see an item and you already have seen 
its GUID before, then you know it has been changed.  That will work in a 
single client but it will mislead you if the feed repeats an unchanged 
item for whatever reason.

Cheers,

Tom P