Eric Scheid wrote:
Finally, markup design that claims to enforce a specific action is
always questionable. The great virtue of descriptive markup in
general is that the tags tell you not what to do with things but what
they are. So on that basis, rel="current-version" or something is
better design.
The verb/noun thing is a good point ... but how could 'self', which
generally speaking, would point to a completely different set of data, be
considered "descriptive"?
FWIW, @rel="subscription" was offered up first, but then got switched to
'subscribe'.
I guess that was my fault. My reasoning was that it would be more in line
with the Atom Publication Protocol [1] which uses verbs for its link
relations when they are suggesting an action ("edit", "srcedit"). If that's
the wrong thing to do, somebody may want to inform the WG in case they
aren't following this.
Regards
James
[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-05.txt
(section 12)
