David Powell wrote:
But what would processors do with an atom:link? Atom Protocol uses "edit", there have been calls for a "stylesheet". Links aren't necessarily things that you'd display to users (check HTML out for examples of that: favicon, P3P, Atom/RSS, GRDDL)
Well if you've got a decent feed API (hint: not the Microsoft one) you could ask it for a list of links on an entry without it having to know what all the link types are, and without you having to parse the XML yourself. If it was a really nice API it might even provide you with a set of extension attributes included with each link.
Regards James