Thank all of you for the explanations.
I have another question about the Atom self link.
In RFC 4287,
o atom:feed elements SHOULD contain one atom:link element with a rel
attribute value of "self". This is the preferred URI for
retrieving Atom Feed Documents representing this Atom feed.
So, does this mean that the atom:link with rel="self" should have a href to
the first page of a paged feed or the subscription document of an archived
feed?
-Franklin
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From: "James Holderness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 13 November, 2007 19:57
To: "Atom Syntax" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Paged Feeds Question
I have to agree with Eric and Aristotle.
The "atom:id" element conveys a permanent, universally unique
identifier for an entry or feed.
Note that says "feed", not "feed document".
An Atom Feed Document is a representation of an Atom feed, including
metadata about the feed, and some or all of the entries associated
with it.
That tells us that a feed *document* can be a representation of *some* of
the feed. From that we can deduce that two feed documents could represent
two different parts of the same feed. Since the atom:id is unique to the
feed, not the feed document, both such documents should share the same id.
Regards
James
