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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: best practice for providing newsfeeds ?
 > Are we better off preserving the original date, or using the current > (i.e. last-update) date instead? We too end up maintaining two date Well, the UK government had a very difficult time determining what would be valid values for "gender" when designing their XML Schemas as well. I could claim that "gender" is remarkably clear semantics, and someone could correctly point to the UK example in rebuttal. Anyone who has spent more than a week on this list knows that there is no such thing as absolute clarity with semantics. But I really don't see a big issue here. Millions of people worldwide use gender every day as "man and woman", and millions of people use aggregators which use pubDate to mean "this article is 'new' if pubDate is > Now()". It works just fine, and if you were making the wrong decision for your paying customers, they would have told you. Maybe you have customers who are asking for a feature in their aggregators which allows them to differentiate between "updated" and "new". But you would still be the exception, and not the rule, I believe. The original question was about customer pull vs. techie push, and so far I am completely unconvinced that there is any significant customer pull for this feature. Your explanation convinces me that you are a domain expert in providing news information to people, but it's still not enough evidence that the feature is motivated by strong customer demand from aggregator users vs. the best-intentioned "push" of a few domain experts and techies. 
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