2006/10/9, Andreas Sewe:
But while the draft states that "[t]hese [feed] types are complementary" (section 1), but is unfortunately silent on how precisely the three different types can be used together. Here are a few questions I still have: - Is it possible that an Archived Feed Document is marked as complete?
By definition, an Archived Feed is a set of Feed Documents, and an Archive Document is a Feed Document within that set. It cannot be "complete", unless it is the only one in the set, and therefore represents the whole Archived Feed as a single Feed Document. It's "current" link should then point to itself (i.e. the same as the "self" link).
- Is it possible that a Paged Feed's pages (i.e., its feed documents) are marked as complete?
No. By definition, a Complete Feed is a single Feed Document. See: 2. Complete Feeds A complete feed is a feed document that contains all of the entries of a logical feed; any entry not actually in the feed document SHOULD NOT be considered to be part of that feed.
- Is it possible to serve a single, possibly large Archive Document as multiple pages?
Not sure what you're talking about… Do you mean a Logical Feed would be split into "stable subsets", each such subset split into "unstable" Feed Documents? In this case, as each document is not "stable", it's a Paged Feed, not an Archived Feed, even if the subset of entries from within 2 Feed Documents form a "stable subset". If every Feed Document is "stable", then you have an Archived Feed an dyou can link Feed Documents to each others using next-archive and prev-archive. -- Thomas Broyer
