Roy T. Fielding wrote:
I just created a starting point for a proposal on making the feed element recursive, eliminating the need for RDF syntax, atom:head, and a bunch of things proposed in other paces regarding aggregators and digital signatures.
http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/PaceFeedRecursive
Unfortunately, I have a paper deadline on Tuesday and can't procrastinate any longer, so someone else can finish the details or I'll finish it later in the week.
I realize that the proposal isn't flushed out, but a question nevertheless.
The proposal apparently is for feeds to contain other feeds by containment. My question is whether it would make sense to also support feeds containing other feeds by reference, perhaps via a link element or via a src= attribute (analogous to content/@src defined in 5.12.2).
A use case can be found here:
http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/01/13/feed_playlists_versus_feed_urls
The only additional requirement I can see is that it might make sense to have a separate mime type for feeds which only reference other feeds, and feeds which contain content.
- Sam Ruby
