Henry Story wrote:
Sorry I did not participate in the previous discussion for format 00.
I only just
realized this was going on. What is clear is that this is really needed!
I agree with Stefan Eissing's random thought that it may not be a
good idea to use
Atom for a "top 10" feed. Atom entries are not ordered in a feed for
one. Also as I
understand it an entry in a feed is best thought of as a state of an
external resource
at a time. Making a feed of the top x entries is to use the feed as a
closed collection
whereas I think it is correctly interpreted as an open one.
I disagree. Atom could be used very easily for a top 10 feed. What is
needed is a simple extension that provides rank orderings for entries.
Something as simple as the following would work...
<feed ...>
...
<entry>
...
<r:index>1</r:index>
</entry>
<entry>
<r:index>2</r:index>
</entry>
<entry>
<r:index>3</r:index>
</entry>
</feed>
If that is right, and so fh:stateful is not needed, then would it not
be simpler to
extend the link element in the following really simple way:
<link rel="http://purl.org/syndication/history/1.0"; type="application/
atom+xml"
href="http://example.org/2003/11/index.atom"; />
I actually can't what my opinion on this used to be :-( but right now
I'm thinking that a custom link relation is the right approach.
- James
