[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Updates (was Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds?)

• To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Updates (was Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds?)
• From: David Megginson <dmeggin@a...>
• Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:59:22 -0500
• In-reply-to: <20040203195501.GP2765@s...>
• References: <0E36FD96D96FCA4AA8E8F2D199320E52E081F1@R...> <20040203195501.GP2765@s...>
• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1

jcowan@r... wrote:

> Our customers did.  They wanted to be able to distinguish clearly between
> new and updated articles, because our news is updated for the most part
> when we make a mistake, and if we don't correct errors, people can die
> because their doctors gave them 150 instead of 15 mg of some drug.
> That could be any of you.

And more generally, the wire services update news stories all the time -- if 
you read a breaking story on Yahoo!, then go back in half an hour, the odds 
are that you'll be reading a slightly different version (with a new 
quotation, an extra detail, an small correction, etc.).


All the best,


David

• References:
  • RE: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
    • From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
  • Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
    • From: jcowan@r...

• Prev by Date: Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
• Next by Date: Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
• Previous by thread: Re: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
• Next by thread: RE: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread