Saturday, July 30, 2005, 9:55:33 PM, Antone Roundy wrote:

> <link rel="in-reply-to" ...>
>         <link rel="in-reply-to-feed" ... />
> </link>

I'm not at all keen on extending the link element in this way. Atom
Publishing Servers that don't know about this extension that receive
an entry containing nested links from a publishing client will most
likely drop the content of the link and publish it to clients without
the inner link.

I don't believe that atom:link isn't usefully extensible other than by
creating new @rel values; or if you want something more powerful, use
extension elements.

Atom's extensibility framework has been touted as one of Atom's major
advantages[1] over RSS. Nested link elements sound a bit too much like
[2], but without the namespaces constraint.

[1] http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared#x
[2] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#extendingRss

-- 
Dave

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