On 6 Jul 2006, at 16:46, Alex Milowski wrote:
I added Atom protocol support to the eXist XML database. That project
is open-source and hosted at http://www.exist-db.org
Very nice db by the way. I have heard a lot of good stuff about it.
Unfortunately, it isn't documented yet. That documentation will
be finished for a release on July 15th.
Well that's a bummer :-)
I'll announce that again when I finish the documentation.
cool!
I have no doubt that individual <service> documents can contain a
lot of information. The problem is: it is mostly the same type of
information: a url pointing to a feed with some info on what mime
types that feed accepts. If that is all the info there is in
there, then it seems to me a little expensive to create a whole
new mime type for such a document. Especially as there seems to be
an obvious location to place this information: the feed itself.
Sometimes a directed syntax is more appropriate. I've tried to fit
certain kinds of information into Atom feeds and it became unworkable.
Well as far as I can see all that is needed is an
<app:accept>application/atom+xml</app:accept>
extension to the atom feed document.
Do we need really *need* anything else?
I'm not convinced that this is the case for introspection but it
doesn't bother me as long as it comes back as pointy brackets.
Ah you see. I think there is a general feeling here, that this is not
needed _really_. So my point is: let's remove this, and get the spec
out of the door faster!
Henry
