Robert Sayre wrote:
Agree. -1. Bill needs a private content model. Removing the content model from Atom will not fix that. I suggest something like "text/bill+xml". Making general-purpose feeds available where one consumer will only ever use half of the content is bad practice. Use two resources. If we were looking for a way to make the bandwidth problem much, much worse, this would be one way.
I take your point but disagree on the last bit. The bandwidth problem, and someone is sure to say "what problem?", is a function of the rate of retrieval, not the size of the document. [I could for example, spin a bandwidth/size rationale to prejudice against optional/extensible metadata.]
cheers Bill
