[georss] "When" information in georss

[Sean Gillies]

Andrew Turner wrote:
> On 7/29/07, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> wrote:
>> The time period that the feed is valid for for ... that would be
>> published/updated up until *now* right? It seems that the best way to
>> indicate a future limit would be for the feed's origin server to set an
>> "Expires" HTTP header. That would be going with the grain of the Web.
> 
> I may have requested a feed for another, arbitrary time period, say
> 4-20-2007 > 5-15-2007
> 
> And relying on just the HTTP headers means that I then lose that
> information if I store the file. So like GeoRSS feeds can have a
> geometry that applies to the entire feed, it would be nice to use the
> timespan to define a timespan for the entire feed. This is especially
> important if I request a feed for that month, even if there are only
> items for a week in the middle. The feed still is of the entire month.
> 
> Brian - can you put that example as a page on the GeoRSS CMS?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 

Andrew,

Assuming you're using OpenSearch to request a feed using a temporal 
query, could you not rely on the os:Query element that you would include 
in the response?

Sean