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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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