* Jan Algermissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-06 20:55]: > But that is an issue of linking semantics, not link target > media types. I'd expect the user agent to look for links with > 'here is a feed' semantics instead of looking for (arbitrary) > links to certain media types. > > IMHO, there is something going wrong somewhere - and it ain't > the media type.
It seems pointless for atom:link to have a type attribute at all then. You should be able to decide anything you need to decide by GETting the resource (and sometimes parsing it). Why did we add such a useless feature to the spec? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>