On 31/7/07 3:31 PM, "Teo Hui Ming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 7/31/07, Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Now, as to your scenario:
>> 
>>> Bob wrote an article, and published it as an Atom document.
>>> Alice published a translation of the article, and Bob wish to include
>>> a link in his Atom document to point to Alice's translation.
>> 
>> Bob would put his name into the entry he authored, but not because he wrote
>> the original article. If a third party (Charles) were to write an entry
>> linking to Bob's article or Alice's translation, then Charles would be the
>> author.
> 
> I agree. Charles wrote the entry, thus he is the entry's author.
> 
> But my concern is, can we safely link to any document using atom:link
> (regardless of @rel), just as we can with html:a and html:link, thus
> are "normal links" [1].

there is no "regardless of @rel", because RFC 4287 has this to say:

4.2.7.2.  The "rel" Attribute

   atom:link elements MAY have a "rel" attribute that indicates the link
   relation type.  If the "rel" attribute is not present, the link
   element MUST be interpreted as if the link relation type is
   "alternate".

> @rel may imply certain meaning on relationship (e.g. ownership)
> between documents that authors/implementers must be careful about. If
> yes, it seems necessary to make it clear.

I would hope RFC2887#4.2.7.2 is clear :-)

> and atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED], should we treat it as normal / embedded [2] ?
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkLaw.html#Normal
> [2] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkLaw.html#Embedded

My understanding is that atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is the latter.

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