On 6/5/05 1:07 PM, "Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hrm. This is an interesting point. I'm not too concerned about "find > every feed, regardless of relevance" because I think only search engines > will be interested in it, especially if all the other cases are marked. finding every feed is not my concern either. > They can bear to check the feed and see what the root element is. this won't work ... see below. > This also makes rel="alternate" seem like an even worse choice for > *feed* autodiscovery because it would make sense to link to an atom > *entry* as rel="alternate" from the page for an individual entry. absolutely! > I really don't think @rel is the place to address concerns about type. > That's really the job of @type (of course). If we need to declare more > mime-types, then so be it. Just to throw more fuel on the fire: It is quite conceivable for an Atom Feed Document (AFD) to contain a set of entries which won't grow or be updated, such as an AFD which contains all postings for a calendar period, or an AFD which contains one entry for each chapter of a book, and so on. Thus, neither mime-types nor root-element-sniffing will be reliable enough to discover the resource which is appropriate for "subscribing" to - ie. discovering which Atom Feed Document is the one which will be updated as time goes by in the usual sliding window manner, and not the monthly archive that page happens to be contained within. e.
