I believe it was part of atom 0.3, and for some complex reason I never
bothered trying to understand someone decided it should be moved over to
the protocol side of things. Probably just because the debate was
taking up
too much time...
So yes. 'prev' and 'next' have always been intended to be there in
the link element...
Henry
On 9 Oct 2005, at 10:39, James Holderness wrote:
Following up on the idea of using atom:link instead of fh:prev, I
recently came across an old article by Mark Pilgrim on XML.com
(http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/06/16/dive.html) in which he
discusses the atom:link element and the various rel attributes it
supports. He specifically brings up the issue of feed history and
using next and prev to link archives together.
It sounded to me as if he was talking about an existing feature in
the spec - it wasn't like he was proposing it as a new idea. So was
this something that used to be part of an old version of the spec
that was later removed? Or was this an early proposal that was
never accepted into the spec?
Also of interest: there's a link from that article to his archives
on diveintomark.org which actually include next and prev links in
the feed. I'm almost inclined to add support for that just so I can
access those old posts. There used to be some excellent articles on
his site.
