Tim Bray wrote:
>
> On Jun 2, 2006, at 6:10 AM, Joe Gregorio wrote:
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>> POSTing to a collection always creates one and only one entry.
>
> Um... where does the spec say that? I'm super nervous about trying to
> impose any behavior on publishing systems unless there's a slam-dunk
> interoperability reason. PME5 says that posting a non-entry constitutes
> a request that two resources be created, etc. That would leave the door
> open for the server to deal with some special media-type in some special
> weird way and create an ordinary non-media-link entry and return its
> URI. Trying to rule this out seems counter-productive.
>
+1, although I would suggest that one-entry-created-per-post will likely
be what is expected most of the time, and it would be good to
acknowledge the fact.
- James
