[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (ODATA-254) Selection of individual properties in [ATOM] should not include property name

Selection of individual properties in [ATOM] should not include property name
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                 Key: ODATA-254
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/ODATA-254
             Project: OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: OData ATOM Format v1.0
    Affects Versions: WD01
         Environment: [Proposed]
            Reporter: Michael Pizzo
             Fix For: WD01


Currently, the example in Section 10 of [ATOM] implies that when selecting a single property (i.e., ~Customers('ALFKI')/FirstName), the payload would contain the name of the property in the d: namespace:

    <Title xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices">CEO<Title> 

This implies that what is represented is a property with a given name, which is not the case; what should be represented is the *value* of the property, which is independent of the property itself (and can thus be used, for example, in passing as a parameter to an action). This is also inconsistent with how a function that returns a single property is represented, and is inconsistent with the JSON format (which represents this as a name/value pair with the name "value").

We should specify that an individual property is serialized in ATOM as an element named "value" in the odata metadata namespace. 

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