Hi Eric, * Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 21:10]: >Here is a link to a resource: > > <link type="application/atom+xml" href="..." /> > >Please explain how a tool can decide whether that is a link to a ><atom:feed> document, or is a link to an <atom:entry> document?
this is an excellent point. How does either Pace address it? >> In fact, semantically, we should be encouraging people to move >> things out of their `<link>`s and into `<a>`s in the page. > >Sounds like PaceAnchorSupport. How do you propose we do this >encouragement, if not by codifying it into a spec? PaceAnchorSupport merely promotes `<a>` to parity with `<link>`, for which the I-D says a `rel` attribute consisting of at least `alternate` is required. But I don’t see how “this is a feed I want to link to” implies a different relationship with the linking page than “this is some resource I want to link to.” The mere fact that the linked resource is a feed (or entry document) does not constitute a relationship with the linking page in and of itself; and that makes `rel` the wrong place to shoehorn this information into. So no, encouraging people to add advisory `type` information to their links is not equivalent to PaceAnchorSupport. In any case, the important part is that when someone clicks the link in a browser, the right things happen. For that, the `type` is not even necessary, so long as the feed is served with the correct MIME type and contains a self-link. The type makes some harvesting easier, but ultimately, it’s not *necessary*. We’re trying to shoehorn this functionality in with autodiscovery right now because as of yet, the right things do not happen, even though they *could*, whereas something closer to the right things does happen when autodiscovery links are added willy-nilly. >The existing behaviour is based on the various incarnations of >RSS where the only document type involved are feeds. RFC 4287 >introduces a new document type, the Atom Entry Document, which >autodiscovery-01 fails to take into consideration. That doesn't >meet my definition of "well-written". I don’t know how that is relevant. I am trying to think of a scenario where I’d want to autodiscover an entry document (as opposed to simply linking to it) and the inability to distinguish between feed and entry documents is causing a problem, but I can’t come up with anything. Can you provide an example? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
