What little I can add to this, not being an atom boy:
Most versioning system cannot reliably predict the URI of the next
version. So, embedding the URI of the document inside the document
itself, either requires document changes on submitting a new version or
a try-and-error approach. (WebDAV deltav offers a try-and-error
mechanism)
One could work around this by inventing a "version history" document
which keeps the URIs of all feed versions (and the prev/next relations,
so a reader could find out that there is a newer one also). Since the
version history URI never changes for a feed, embedding the history URI
inside the feed poses no challenge.
I cannot judge weather coming up with an extra document for this
feature is overkill or not. But it would allow for easier integration
into existing versioning mechanisms.
Best Regards, Stefan - wondering if the version history would be a feed
of its own...
Am 28.06.2005 um 22:25 schrieb Mark Nottingham:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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Title : Feed History: Enabling Stateful Syndication
Author(s) : M. Nottingham
Filename : draft-nottingham-atompub-feed-history-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 2005-6-27
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give
hints about the nature of the feed's statefulness, and a means of
retrieving ^missed^ entries from a stateful feed.
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