* Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-19 23:10]: >PaceDifferentRelValue addresses this. It suggests using "feed" >as an @rel value to indicate the referenced resource is a feed >(ie. is not an entry doc) which can be subscribed to. It doesn't >rule out continuing to use "alternate" for those cases where the >feed is actually an alternate to the current document.
Quibbling about the assumption that noone would ever want to subscribe to an entry document aside, I guess I can see the point. But `rel` is not the place for that. I don’t think we *do* have a place for it. What you really want is to express that the linked resource adheres to a certain profile. (Hm, what happened to James Snell’s profile extension?) People could be as precise as they care to be, and bots and user agents could support whichever profiles they cared to. You avoid requiring full buy-in from everyone in order to make something useful even though it’s as vague as “feed.” Of course, this requires a mythical hook in HTML to hang the profile information off of… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
