Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
> Why not support hyperlinks too?
> <a rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"
> href="/xml/index.atom">Main Atom feed</a>
One very interesting side-effect of putting the autodiscovery data
in elements of the body is that it then becomes visible in many more
environments. For instance, if I were to cut some text from a web page and
paste it into blog post or another web page, then if that text had links
with rel="alternate" in it, those links would travel along with the quote.
If I built a page of quotes from many sites, I might end up with "alternate"
links to many different sites, feeds, etc. This might not be as "bad" as it
sounds...
This might argue against using "alternate" in body elements that
might be cut out and pasted into or quoted in other pages since clearly, the
thing which is an alternate is an alternate of the page which originally
contained the quote -- not the page into which the quote has been pasted or
an alternate form of the quote itself.
While there are some problems to be worked on, I very much like the
idea of a chunk of HTML carrying around some indication of its provenance,
original source and alternate sources.
bob wyman
