http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/social-welfare/irish-social-welfare-system/atom.zip
cheers
Bill
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
No one has responded to my question below in many days so I will repeat
it in simpler terms in the hope that someone will take the time to respond.
Does ATOM support hierarchical entries in a feed where an entry has
another entry nested inside it?
If not, what is the suggested way to handle that use case? The classic
example is an atom feed for a directory tree where each entry is a node
in the tree. How would one go about representing that in ATOM?
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
Hello,
I am new to ATOM and have a followup question to the archived message
below.
Since a folder can contain other folders thus defining a item
hierarchy how is this hierarchical content best represented in an ATOM
feed? A modified example based on original from archived message below
would be terrific. Thanks.
<archived message>
One important thing to keep in mind is that the author element is only
required in an entry if it does not exist at the feed level, so you
really do not need to worry about entry level authors.
This is just off the top of my head, so this might not entirely work,
but if I were building an Atom feed from a directory listing, I'd likely
do something like the following:
<feed xmlns="...">
<id>file:/path/to/the/folder</id> <!-- or whatever else works -->
<title>folder name</title>
<updated>{folder last modified timestamp}</updated>
<link rel="self" href="..." />
<link rel="alternate" href="..." />
<author><name /></author> <!-- the name can be empty-->
<entry>
<id>file:/path/to/the/file</id>
<title>filename</title>
<updated>{file last modified timestamp}</updated>
<link rel="alternate" type="..." href="file:/path/to/the/file" />
<summary>filename, type, last modified, size, etc. Info that would
typically appear in a directory listing</summary>
</entry>
</feed>
It really shouldn't need to get anymore complicated than that.
- James
</archived message>
