hixie: mention that the Atom conversion step can result in non-conforming Atom feeds if the input is insufficient. (whatwg r4466)

hixie: mention that the Atom conversion step can result in non-
conforming Atom feeds if the input is insufficient. (whatwg r4466)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.3565&r2=1.3566&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4465&to=4466

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.3566
diff -u -d -r1.3565 -r1.3566
--- Overview.html 5 Jan 2010 02:54:37 -0000 1.3565
+++ Overview.html 5 Jan 2010 03:02:34 -0000 1.3566
@@ -41001,7 +41001,14 @@
 
    <li><p>Return the Atom document <var title="">R</var>.</li>
 
-  </ol><p>The <dfn id="atom-namespace">Atom namespace</dfn> is: <code>http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom</code></p>
+  </ol><p class="note">The above algorithm does not guarantee that the
+  output will be a conforming Atom feed. In particular, if
+  insufficient information is provided in the document (e.g. if the
+  document does not have any <code title="">&lt;meta name="author"
+  content="..."&gt;</code> elements), then the output will not be
+  conforming.</p>
+
+  <p>The <dfn id="atom-namespace">Atom namespace</dfn> is: <code>http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom</code></p>
 
   </div><h2 id="browsers"><span class="secno">6 </span>Web browsers</h2><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Last call for comments</i><div class="impl">

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