On 11/8/05, Thomas Broyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Powell wrote: > > Disagree. The only reason that you would need the URI of the introspection > > document is to resolve relative IRI references, which aren't a problem for > > the > > draft-protocol-06 format because it uses IRIs rather than IRI references. > >
Let me restate: no one is going to use MIME dispatch to deal with these, because it doesn't work. Existing weblog editors already know how to find the introspection file, it's just that the format is a little suboptimal. Some guess it from the blog URI, other go sniffing, but it seems to work most of the time. This not a hypothetical situation--the code is already running. > > a URI and pass this URI to the client application - this generally doesn't > > happen which is why we invented rel="self" for Atom. > Isn't that the role of xml:base? I am -1 on either of those things for this document format, because they don't solve a problem for any use case. Keep it simple. -- Robert Sayre "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
