I am not sure that thread agrees about prefetching the link and including inside.
It does support the notion of extreme extension or extension beyond planning. I, personally, think there is an alternative that does not have the semantic conflict Julian mentioned nor the performance / caching issues with prefetching the link and including. Best, Al Sent from BlackBerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nikunj R. Mehta" [[email protected]] Sent: 05/26/2009 02:07 PM MST To: Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Cc: Atom-Syntax Syntax <[email protected]> Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-divilly-atom-hierarchy-00 On May 25, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
with respect to <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-divilly-atom-hierarchy-00#section-3 >, "Inline Representation of Hierarchical Resources"... It seems to be that using atom:link as a container elements stretches its semantics of "reference from an entry or feed to a Web resource" too much.
I don't agree with that. A previous discussion on this mailing list more than a year ago [1] has already concluded that it is perfectly legal to do so. Additionally, the hierarchy-ID approach appears similar to the approach taken by the RFC4287 with atom:content usage models, where several options about inline and out-of-line content delivery are available.
As Al pointed out on the CMIS mailing list (<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/cmis/200905/msg00186.html >), it may be better to use a container element inside atom:entry. So, the example in <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-divilly-atom-hierarchy-00#section-3.2.3 >: <atom:entry> <atom:link rel="down" href="/finance/feeds/default/portfolios/1/positions"> <atom:feed> <atom:link rel="self" href="/finance/feeds/default/portfolios/1/positions"/> ... </atom:feed> </atom:link> ... </atom:entry> would become <atom:entry> <atom:link rel="down" href="/finance/feeds/default/portfolios/1/positions" /> <ah:children> <atom:feed> <atom:link rel="self" href="/finance/feeds/default/portfolios/1/positions"/> ... </atom:feed> </ah:children> ... </atom:entry> BR, Julian
Nikunj http://o-micron.blogspot.com [1] http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg20464.html
