On 11/5/05, Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luke Arno wrote: > > Is a hammer not a hammer when I am not > > whacking something with it? > You can drive a nail with your fist if you want, that doesn't make your > fist a hammer. > > A Collection Resource is still a Collection Resource, even if you > subscribe to the Atom Feed Document used to list its membership. >
A collection resource is an unneeded invention. > You seem confused about resources and their representations. A feed is a > resource (something that people will probably subscribe to, and which > might have RSS or Atom Feed Document representations; a blog homepage is > also a feed resource, represented using (X)HTML). An Atom Feed Document > is just a representation; this doesn't mean it always represents a feed > resource (best example is collection membership listing). > I am not confused. I disagree with you. I see no utility in viewing this as a separate resource. The web page, the feed your users subscribe to and the feed your blogging client consumes are all representations of feed resources. We have no call to create a new vocabulary word just as we had no call to create a new "collection" document. All we need to describe a nice simple publishing protocol is to describe the interactions pertaining to our feed and entry resources. - Luke
