[wp-hackers] Why URL in GUID?

[Geoffrey Sneddon]

On 3 Oct 2006, at 05:58, David Chait wrote:

> EEEEK.  +1...million!
>
> All prior notes were that the guid is JUST a guid -- while it might  
> LOOK like a URI, it shouldn't be USED as one.  Bad form! ;)

In RSS 2.0, it has an attribute "ispermalink", which defaults to  
true. If it is not set, or is set to true, it can be used as one.

- Geoffrey Sneddon.