Dave Pawson wrote: > Any one site could now have n instances, each being a feed, the only > variant (apart from entries) being the links to previous feeds. > If I'm to say *this* is my feed, I guess I point to the most recent... > which will change over time? > > With the example of 15 entries per, > > feed1 1..15 > feed4 45..60 > > my 'feed' for my site rolls over from feed1...n as time progresses?
I guess the answer is: http://example.com/latest is your feed, e.g. containing the latest 10 entries http://example.com/archive-1 through n are your "archive" feeds. "latest" is likely to contain entries which are also "archived" in "archive-n", but I don't see it as a problem (and it doesn't violate Atom Feed Document rules wrt uniqueness of entries), at most I will retrieve 14 entries (if using 15 entries per "archive feed document") which I already got from the "live" feed. You can see "latest" as an Atom alternate for your home page (or latest news page) and "archive-1" through "archive-n" as Atom alternates for your "archive" pages. What I'm wondering is, if I had "archive feeds" on a per-day basis (instead of "N entries per archive feed", although what follows also applies) and say I published 3 entries yesterday, 5 entries the day before and no entry yet today: - http://example.net/archive/2005/06/27: 5 entries - http://example.net/archive/2005/06/28: 3 entries - http://example.net/archive/2005/06/29: doesn't exist yet Say I'm having a "live feed" showing the latest 5 entries: it will contain all the 3 yesterday entries and the 2 latest entries from 2005/06/27. Could I "prev"-link to "archive/2005/06/28" or should I try to figure out the "archive feed" containing the "previous to earliest" entry (here, "archive/2005/06/27", but it could have been "archive/2005/06/25" if I had only 2 entries last monday and not at all on sunday) ? If I can just link to the "latest archive feed document", shouldn't we then just have an "archive" [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the "live feeds" (similar to the "List-Archive" header in mail messages) and use "prev" only between "archive feed documents" (similar to the "Next Page" link in the HTML list archive). -- Thomas Broyer
