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. e.
