On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:45 PM, James Holderness wrote:
James M Snell wrote:
1. Can a profile element appear in an atom:feed/atom:source? If
so, what does it mean? I think it should with the caveat that the
profile attribute should only impact the feed and should not
reflect on the individual entries within that feed.
I can't see any particular use for atom:source myself, but I would
definately want profile support at the feed level. As an aggregator
I want to be able to display a custom view for a particular feed
based on what it contains (e.g. slideshow view if it's a flickr
feed - all images). It would be difficult to do something like that
with only entry level profiles.
I don't think it's possible to allow something at the feed level, but
disallow it in atom:source (the Atom format spec could have done
that, but I don't think an extension can add such restrictions).
What does it mean in atom:source? That the feed that the entry came
from conformed to the profile.
What will consuming applications do with profile elements in
atom:source? That's entirely up to the application developer. Maybe
nothing--maybe they'll ignore profiles that don't apply to the entire
feed. Or maybe they'll come up with something useful.
