On Jan 31, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Antone Roundy wrote:
4) PaceFeedRecursive eliminates atom:head. PaceAggregationDocument does not, though it leaves the door open for discussing whether to do so.
That is kind of pointless. The main purpose of PaceFeedRecursive is to use XML hierarchy to clearly define the association between mark-up and what is being marked, thus answering the extensibility question and defining the Atom->RDF mapping. The main obstacle to that is atom:head.
Recursive is just the simplest way to implement (and visualize) the solution, at least for those folks who understand that it is okay to limit the rendering of recursive feeds to some implementation-defined number of levels. If not recursive, then it makes far more sense to simply remove atom:head and either add a peer to atom:entry (e.g., atom:feedptr) or simply add an attribute to atom:entry that indicates whether it refers to an instance of entry or another feed.
....Roy
