On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, James M Snell wrote: > > Just as an example, Windows Live Writer uses the service link to > discover the location of the Atompub service document; which it then > uses to configure itself to interact with one or more Atompub > collections. > > For instance, in IBM's internal blogging environment, any employee can > have one or more blogs. When they use WLW, rather than manually > configuring the client for each individual blog, they can simply point > WLW to what we call the "dashboard" at http://blogs.tap.ibm.com/weblogs. > WLW will get that page, look for the service link, get the service > document, and automatically pull out the blogs that user can edit.
Ok, but how does it know that it's an Atompub service document, as opposed to a FooBar service API? Is the "type" attribute required, or...? (And if so, does this mean that you can only have one type per api, and one api per type?) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'