A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * James M Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-16 06:00]:
>> The slash:comments extension element can be used to provide a
>> global comment count that operates independently of the replies
>> link.
>
> Supply per-link information as namespaced attributes on link
> elements, if you must. I don’t like the idea, but it seems there
> is unfortunately no way to associate link-specific RFC 4287
> Simple or Structured Extension Elements with a link. (But why
> `thr:when` rather than `thr:updated`?)
>
RFC4287 does not forbid simple or structured extension elements on link.
> However, don’t neglect to provide a way to supply a global reply
> count. That would break the argument that the FTE covers nearly
> every threading use cases without having to resort to a gaggle of
> other extensions and hence weaken FTE’s position, IMO.
I will consider adding a thr:count element to the spec to cover the
global count case.
- James
