Bill de hÓra wrote:
I think you're proposing to enable a kind of Atom microformat - "if you
see profile ?x check for ?a ?b and ?c". Sorting it out on consumer
sounds flaky ('sounds', not 'is'), but this also might be very cool. I
wonder why you need a link to do this instead of foo:profile tag.
Precisely. Yes, sorting everything out on the client does *sound*
flaky, but we're not introducing any new problem here. XHTML
microformats have the same problem.
Regarding the use of a link versus foo:profile, I really have no
preference one way or the other. The profile reference should be a
dereferencable link to a profile document that describes the profile
but, for the most part, clients will likely only rarely ever dereference
it (using the href more as an identifier). Strictly speaking,
dereferenceable profile links should probably use the atom:link element
but there is no hard requirement that says a profile element wouldn't
also work.
- James
