* Antone Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-10-24 22:35]:
> Interesting. Filling an attribute with a list of URIs doesn't
> really appeal to me though. How about this:
> 
> <link rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" href="http://example.com/ 
> file.mp3" xml:id="x-file">
>     <altlink:mirror href="http://www2.example.com/file.mp3"; />
>     <altlink:mirror href="http://www3.example.com/file.mp3"; />
> </link>

It’s a lot more verbose and you have to fiddle with nesting.

What do you get in return? “It looks more XMLish”?

> Sounds good, but you may have noticed above that I used a
> prefix not specific to enclosures--there's no reason to tie
> this all to one particular type of link (nor to make it look
> as if it were tied to one specific link type). So the other
> link might, for example, be:

I don’t know if striving for generality in this fashion without
a practical need is worthwhile. It smells of architecture
astronautics for a reason I can’t particularly pinpoint. So maybe
my instinct is wrong.

> Note that I changed "alternative-to" to "primary" just because
> it's shorter and one word.

Works for me.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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