When you dereference "current", you'll always get a feed document
that contains the most recent entries in the feed. There's
effectively a guarantee that the latest entries will be there.
When you dereference "last", you'll get a feed document containing
the furthest following document in a set of documents. The nature of
the set and its members is undefined -- it could be the last feed
document, but it could also be the last entry document, and the set
could be search results, archives, or anything else. There isn't a
guarantee it'll always have the latest entries in it.
On 22/10/2005, at 11:01 AM, Elias Torres wrote:
What's the difference between current and last?
Elias
On 10/22/05, Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've replaced "subscribe" with "current"; otherwise, these are the
same as in the last round. I think they're ready to go -- any more
comments?
- Attribute Value: previous
- Description: A URI that refers to the immediately preceding
document in a series of documents.
- Expected display characteristics: Undefined.
- Security considerations: Automated agents should take care when
this relation crosses administrative domains (e.g., the URI has a
different authority than the current document). Such agents should
also take care to detect circular references.
- Attribute Value: next
- Description: A URI that refers to the immediately following
document in a series of documents.
- Expected display characteristics: Undefined.
- Security considerations: Automated agents should take care when
this relation crosses administrative domains (e.g., the URI has a
different authority than the current document). Such agents should
also take care to detect circular references.
- Attribute Value: first
- Description: A URI that refers to the furthest preceding
document in a series of documents.
- Expected display characteristics: Undefined.
- Security considerations: Automated agents should take care when
this relation crosses administrative domains (e.g., the URI has a
different authority than the current document). Such agents should
also take care to detect circular references.
- Attribute Value: last
- Description: A URI that refers to the furthest following
document in a series of documents.
- Expected display characteristics: Undefined.
- Security considerations: Automated agents should take care when
this relation crosses administrative domains (e.g., the URI has a
different authority than the current document). Such agents should
also take care to detect circular references.
- Attribute Value: current
- Description: A URI that, when dereferenced, returns a feed
document containing the most recent entries in the feed.
- Expected display characteristics: Undefined.
- Security considerations: Automated agents should take care when
this relation crosses administrative domains (e.g., the URI has a
different authority than the current document).
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