On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote:
Mark Nottingham wrote:
How about:
<atom:link rel="subscription" href="..."/>
?
I always thought this was the role of @rel="self" to give the URI
you should subscribe to, though re-reading the -11 it deals with "a
resource equivalent to the containing element".
That's what some of us wanted it to be and thought it was intended to
be. The language that made it into the spec certainly falls short of
expressing what was in PaceFeedLink, which is the proposal that added
@rel="self" [1].
1. Isn't "a resource equivalent to the containing element" the same
as "an alternate version of the resource described by the
containing element"?
That's how I would read that language knowing nothing of the history
of that part of the spec. I think some people intended "equivalent"
to mean "it may not be a different copy of the same bits, but
whatever it is, it contains the same bits" (or at least the same code
points, if it happens to be transcoded).
2. Is the answer to 1. is no then what does "a resource equivalent
…" mean? Is it really different than "the URI you should subscribe
to" (at least if @type="application/atom+xml")?
I think what some people want that to mean is "here's a place you
could get the feed, but I'm not making any assertions regarding
whether it's preferable to get it from there or somewhere else."
[1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15062.html
