We want folks to be able to work backwards to the introspection document. That is, they have the URL of the Atom feed. The feed contains an "introspection" link rel and an atom:id. They GET the introspection document and locate the collection containing the matching atom:id element.
- James Henry Story wrote: > > On 8 Mar 2006, at 21:31, James M Snell wrote: >> Henry Story wrote: >>> [snip] >>> Here are my first questions: >>> >>> q1. is there any relation between the title of a collection and the name >>> of the feed it is pointing to? >> >> No. The only reliable connection is the href value... and even that can >> be problematic in certain edge cases. In my implementation, I've taken >> to including the atom:id of the feed in the collection element. > > I'd be interested to know more about the edge cases that led you to > adding the id. > > Henry > >
