From b269835a7fa07c2bf5d469399324b7d2a8a8fbb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon McVittie <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:33:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Re-work [[meta guid=""]] documentation, and stop claiming
 that urn:uuid: is automatically prepended

---
 doc/plugins/meta.mdwn | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
index 12240422d..032802d7a 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/meta.mdwn
@@ -125,14 +125,13 @@ Supported fields:
 
 * guid
 
-  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid will be used,
-  rather than the page url, to identify the page in RSS and Atom feeds.
+  Specifies a globally unique ID for a page. This guid should be a URI
+  (in particular, it can be `urn:uuid:` followed by a UUID, as per
+  [[!rfc 4122]]), and it will be used to identify the page's entry in RSS
+  and Atom feeds. If not given, the default is to use the page's URL as its
+  guid.
 
-  The guid can either be a uuid (ie,
-  "ec248d04-f347-4eb8-92b6-671b15d36980"), or it can be an alternative URL
-  for the page.
-
-  This is mostly useful when a page's feed has moved, to keep the guids for
+  This is mostly useful when a page has moved, to keep the guids for
   pages unchanged and
   [[avoid_flooding_aggregators|howto_avoid_flooding_aggregators]].
 
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