On 29 Nov 2005, at 00:31, Luke Arno wrote:
On 11/28/05, Ernest Prabhakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Henry,
On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Henry Story wrote:
A few improvements of atom over directories is that our feed can
contain not just the current version of an entry, but all previous
versions as well, which I think I remember was a feature supported
by the vms file system.
Interesting. It reminds me of a thought I had a while ago: would it
be possible to emulate 80% of WebDAV by using HTTP + Atom?
I think that is very much the idea. If you check what is going on on
the atom protocol group you will find that they are moving in that
direction
http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/
Would we
also need some sort of list structure, a la XOXO?
http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
Yup, but Atom Feed _is_ a list format. :-)
Mhh. An Atom feed is a *Set* of entries. Not a list of entries.
The entries are not ordered in any particular way in a feed. That is
stated in the spec section 4.1.1
[[
This specification assigns no significance to the order of atom:entry
elements within the feed.
]]
In this sense it is again like the files in a directory. You can sort
them different ways using options to the ls command, or if you have a
graphical browser by clicking the different columns, but there is no
objectively better order than another.
In html one could perhaps represent them as un unordered list, which
is perhaps what the xoxo people intend.
You should check out some of the recent introspection
discussion that went on over on Atom Pub.
- Luke
- Luke
