Wasn't the question how to make this work with popular feed readers? Is anything I wrote not true in that regard?
Also, what argument are you making against using the http URI the identifier? I understand if the tag URI is necessary for internal reasons for the application, but if the http URI is, indeed, a viable identifier for the resource... why not use that? -Ross. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Broyer<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Ross Singer<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity, why isn't your entry/id the http URI of your PDF document? >> >> It seems like you could then have some description in your summary (or >> anything, really) and pretty much any feed reader would make the title >> linkable to the PDF. > > I hope not! > Repeat after me: entry/id is *not* a link, it's just an ID that > happens to have the form of an URI. > (this is different from RSS when the ID can be --defaults to?-- the > "permalink") > > <link rel="alternate" href="..." /> would obviously work as you > describe (and has already been proposed in this thread) > > > -- > Thomas Broyer >
