* Franklin Tse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-13 14:20]: > 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?
By subscription document, do you mean the subscribable, public version of the feed? If so, yes, it’s probably a good idea for the `self` link to that one, not the paged feed. There is no intent here the way there is with feed IDs, though. It’s just a matter of pragmatism. It’s clear that you don’t want aggregators subscribing to any page of an archive feed, ever. It’s also pretty clear why you don’t want aggregators subscribing to the 10th page of a collection feed: they might have to wait a very long time until they see entries that were posted very recently. As for whether aggregators should subscribe to a collection feed or the public feed, note well that collection feeds SHOULD be ordered by app:edited – so aggregators subscribed to a collection feed might frequently find it changed without any new entries having been posted. It’s even conceivable that the opposite happens – that editing churn pushes newly posted entries off the first page of the feed in less than a reasonable aggregator polling interval, so that the aggregator misses them completely. So overall, it is best for aggregators to subscribe to the public published feed. You are free to make a different decision on a case-by-case basis though. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
