On 25/08/2005, at 10:10 AM, Stefan Eissing wrote:
Seeing it as a data structure "fh" introduces a single-linked list
of documents which the whole feed is composed of. I think such a
document needs its own term.
A single document could be named a "feed fragement". The first
document "head fragment"? Not very snappy. Let's see. If the whole
feed is atom, then the fragments are "particals"? "feedytrons"? Are
we perhaps talking about a "split feed" (fh:split=true/false? the
german term for a fragment is "splitter", btw.)
That's one thing to be named. I was trying to come up with a term for
the whole, conceptual feed (that indicates its components have this
nature); that's why I came up with "incremental."
I.e., in usage: "That's a foo feed; you can walk back its previous
elements and build the whole feed." And, "That's not a foo feed; the
document you fetch is the whole feed."
"Incremental" works pretty well there (although it has a lot of
syllables); "sliding" (as suggested by James) also fits, but it is a
bit evocative of time, which I'd like to avoid (despite the use of
'history' in the document title :-/).
(BTW, "incremental" isn't my term; it was suggested privately by an
implementor)
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
