2007/1/30, Bill de hOra:
I'm building a tool (for Plone) at the moment that will publish any content as an Atom Entry by appending '/entry.xml' onto the URL. I had a question about declaring self and alternate links. Here are two options: 1: @rel=self,@type=application/xml+atom links to the Entry @rel=alternate, @hreflang, @type, links to the Content 2: @rel=self @hreflang, @type, links to the Content @rel=alternate, @type=application/xml+atom links to the Entry I couldn't find enough information in the RFC about which way to go. Which would you choose, and why?
#1, because: a. I understand "self" as "myself" b. rel="self" was initially added –even though that does not appear in the spec– so that feed readers do not have to know the IRI where the feed was downloaded, they can just read a byte-stream and the feed-level <link rel="self" .../> will tell them that IRI. For entry-level such links, I would expect the same: where could I download this "file" when nobody gave me its IRI? -- Thomas Broyer
