On 10/16/05, James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You still haven't answered the question about why nesting is *required*

I have code in front of me right now that is making a hierarchy by
building hashtables based on title attributes in link relations, based
on the unwritten spec that says servers must give the exact same title
to each collection they want to be grouped together.

> when I've already demonstrated an approach that will also work, is less
> complicated, and is also supported by existing deployed software.

I have written an APP client using the approach you're advocating,
which is the status quo. I have also watched folks who have written
extremely good clients get tripped up by it. That's how I know the
approach is brittle and error-prone. The example below fails #1 from
Tim's test at the bottom of
<http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg01967.html>.

> GET /2nd_weblog HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.com
>
> ...returns
>
> <html>
> <head>
>   <link rel="collection" href="/entries" />
>   <link rel="collection" href="/pics" />
>   <link rel="collection" href="/categories" />
>   <link rel="collection" href="/foo" />
>

Robert Sayre

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