On 1/4/05 8:15 PM, "Henry Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (yes, I know that "alternate" is a commutative bi-di relationship) > > Good, but now you are reverting back to the previous relation type. Well, my objection is less to do with the value of 'alternate' and more to do with the meaning of @rel, and especially with not introducing special case semantics or ambiguities into the spec. Take for example @rel='feed' ... what directionality does that have? Is an entry which contains a link with @rel='enclosure' an enclosure of the resource referenced by @href? Remember too that @rel is extensible ... do we really want to give a false clue in the spec that sometimes the directionality of the arc can be reversed? What directionality is @rel="http://example.org/rels#next";. Is the resource identified in @href the next entry, or is the entry containing that link the next entry, following the entry at @href? Prior art in other specs says the relationship is from where the link is found, and to the thing at @href. e.
