Antone Roundy wrote: > On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> Antone Roundy wrote: >> >>> Sam, >>> >>> Funny that this should come up today given the recent discussion on >>> the >>> mailing list--NetNewsWire isn't getting the links in your Atom feed >>> right. >> >> There is an off chance that I have been following the list. ;-) > > I certainly didn't mean to imply that you weren't--I just wanted to > point out what I'm seeing in case you didn't know that this particular > feed reader is having this particular problem today. And I thought it > might be of interest to the WG to know what NNW is doing given that > it's doing something that has been argued against within the last 24 > hours.
;-) > I don't remember which version of your feed I was subscribed to > before--perhaps I wasn't subscribed to the Atom feed and NNW updated my > subscription when you redirected to it. So I don't know whether you > purposely removed xml:base to see what chaos would ensue, or whether it > hasn't been there all along and I just haven't seen the problem since I > was subscribed to a different version. As late as this morning, all link/@href attributes in my Atom feed contained absolute URIs. One of the original problems that Atom set out to solve was the desire by people to use relative URIs. Even in their content. In fact, PARTICULARLY in their content. My recent post of Common Feed Errors demonstrate that this demand certainly exists - even in RSS: http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/03/13/Common-Feed-Errors It would be helpful if people were to update: http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/XmlBaseConformanceTests - Sam Ruby
