On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
On Nov 29, 2006, at 7:22 PM, James M Snell wrote:
One such problem occurs in atom:link and atom:content elements.
Specifically:
<atom:link type="application/atom+xml" href="a.xml" />
<atom:content type="application/atom+xml" src="b.xml" />
Given no other information I have no way of knowing whether these are
references to Feed or Entry documents.
And what is the problem with that?
Here's one problem: in this and the autodiscovery case, the UA can't
tell without fetching the remote resource whether it's appropriate to
display a "subscribe" link. In fact, even if the remote resource is
a feed, it may not be appropriate to subscribe to, because it may be
an archive document rather than the live end of a feed.
Of the options presented, I'd favor adding a type parameter to
application/atom+xml. In addition to "feed" and "entry", we may want
"archive".
