On 20/1/06 10:10 AM, "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And someone else still uses Atom in yet another clever way.

Which is precisely why [EMAIL PROTECTED]"alternate",@type="atom+xml"] is an
*ambiguous* way of discovering atom Feeds ...

> It¹s just impossible to specify enough precise semantics to cover
> everyone¹s use cases, and no single app will ever understand all
> of these disparate semantics.

Strawman. I'm not suggesting we pre-define all these other cases. I'm
suggesting we define this one case (here is a feed document related to this
page) in a manner which distinguishes it from other [undefined] cases.

> The problem seems simple while you
> look at it with blog-coloured glasses because that is such a
> small and well-understood niche of the problem space.

Be careful what you assume. I'm thinking of using atom entry documents for
many non-blog related purposes, and this is what is driving my interest in
disambiguating feed autodiscovery.

e.


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