James M Snell wrote:
In that case, the only viable solution is an extension element. This is similar to the Thread Extension use case in which replies may appear within the same feed as the original.
The similarity to the Thread Extension also occured to me, but I didn't have time to write more about it earlier. My thought was that we could perhaps get by with an extension attribute to the link element that would work for both cases. The link element already has an href for pointing to the feed itself, so all we need is an id to point to a particular entry in the feed. I guess for the Thead Extension you'd also need a new rel value though.
An example thead reply-to link would look something like this: <link rel="in-reply-to" type="application/atom+xml" href=http://www.example.org/feed1.atom x:id="entry1_id" /> An example translation link would look something like this: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" hreflang="fr" x:id="french_entry_id" /> What do you think? Regards James
