On 6/5/05 7:22 AM, "Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've basically concluded that the keys to autodiscovery of feeds, in the > general sense, should not be three (rel, type, and href), but two (type > and href). Type is plenty of specification that it's a feed. Claiming > it's relationship as "feed" doesn't seem correct. There are a few > mime-types used, and the one for atom (application/atom+xml) will be an > official standard as soon as the draft is accepted by the IETF. Using @type only is not sufficient, since both Atom Feed Documents *and* Atom Entry Documents use the same mime-type. One is a feed, the other is not. Similarly, RSS 1.0 isn't clearly distinguished by mime-type - there are lots of other resources which are 'application/rdf+xml' (eg. FOAF) e.
