+1. I was already thinking that some text was needed describing the relationship between these.
- James Mark Nottingham wrote: > Hmm. It seems like you need to say something to this; otherwise people > may get the feeling they can use them separately. > > Cheers, > > > On 03/01/2008, at 3:52 PM, James M Snell wrote: > >> >> Mark Nottingham wrote: >>> This looks good, except I'm having trouble with the trash feed; is a >>> client who wishes to implement this spec required to look both for >>> deleted-entry and link/@rel="trash", polling that if present? If so, it >>> seems overly cumbersome to implement two mechanisms. >>> >> >> The client can look for either. Essentially, the deleted-entry element >> tells you only that the entry was removed from this particular feed. It >> does not tell you if the entry exists in some other location. The trash >> feed is orthogonal to deleted-entry and provides a location where things >> like soft-deleted items can be collected. For instance, suppose we have >> an Atompub collection managed by multiple authors, Bob and Joe. Bob >> deletes an entry. Joe discovers that that the entry has been deleted >> when he sees the deleted-entry element. If Joe wishes to recover the >> deleted entry, he can go to the trash feed and look for it there. A >> client could poll the trash feed to discover deleted items if it wishes >> to do so, but looking for the deleted-entry items would likely be more >> efficient. >> >> - James >> >>> BTW, "trash" is culturally specific; how about "garbage"? <1/2 wink> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> >>> On 03/01/2008, at 1:15 PM, James M Snell wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Reviving the Tombstones draft. Consider this a work in progress. >>>> >>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-snell-atompub-tombstones-03.txt >>>> >>>> >>>> There are two significant changes: >>>> >>>> 1. deleted-entry is now part of the Atom namespace >>>> 2. a "trash" link relation is registered to point >>>> to trash feeds. >>>> >>>> The trash feed approach and deleted-entry element approaches are >>>> definitely compatible with one another. They can be used together or >>>> independently. >>>> >>>> - James >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ >>> >>> > > > -- > Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ > >
