Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-11 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-06 05:40]: either that or a flag that says this is dereferenceable, but that is ugly and doesn't let the publisher have a link with both. would it be useful? google does interesting things by crawling links, so do many other link crawling tools. As

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-10 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-05 19:35]: ... and it's too late to write a pace with atom:idref, and wording saying an atom:link must have at least either an atom:href attribute or an atom:idref attribute. That is, one or both but not neither. I dunno if it’d be such a great idea

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-10 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Eric Scheid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-05 19:35]: ... and it's too late to write a pace with atom:idref, and wording saying an atom:link must have at least either an atom:href attribute or an atom:idref attribute. That is, one or both but not neither. I dunno

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-10 Thread Eric Scheid
On 11/8/05 3:20 PM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as producers throw in atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'related'] pointers to the source as well, that base is covered anyway. I'd prefer to see atom:[EMAIL PROTECTED]in-reply-to]. Of course it's related. All links in an entry point to

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 3:07 PM, James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thr:in-reply-to id=urn:foo:1 type=application/atom+xml src=http://www.example.com/atom; / how about this instead link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-05 07:15]: Does this work or do I need to be taken out and flogged again? Absolutely that does work for me. (Sorry for the curt reply – I am off to catch a plane in a few minutes and won’t have ’net for a week. Tried to get this out before I am gone.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Aug 4, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Eric Scheid wrote: link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml thread:idref=urn:foo:1 / this way processors that have a basic understanding of what a link is can still do something useful.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 9:55 PM, Tim Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, consider link rel=ultimate-source-of-all-evil-STAY-AWAY href=http://example.org/evil; / What useful thing is there that software could sanely do, knowing only that something is a link? -Tim not knowing what that particular

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-05 Thread Eric Scheid
On 5/8/05 7:48 PM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: link rel=in-reply-to href=http://www.example.com/atom; type=application/atom+xml thread:idref=urn:foo:1 / this way processors that have a basic understanding of what a link is can still do

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-04 Thread James M Snell
I definitely appreciate all of the feedback on this. The conversation has definitely been helpful. Personally, however, I think that the elegance and simplicity of in-reply-to and replies link rel values trumps defining them as elements in a separate namespace or an otherwise perfectly

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-04 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-04 21:15]: Personally, however, I think that the elegance and simplicity of in-reply-to and replies link rel values trumps defining them as elements in a separate namespace or an otherwise perfectly engineered solution. As for specifying the source

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-04 Thread James M Snell
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-04 21:15]: Personally, however, I think that the elegance and simplicity of in-reply-to and replies link rel values trumps defining them as elements in a separate namespace or an otherwise perfectly engineered solution. As for

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-01 Thread Antone Roundy
On Sunday, July 31, 2005, at 10:24 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-31 01:15]: I could add more, but instead, here's my suggestion for replacing that sentence: If the resource being replied to is an atom:entry, the value of the href attribute MUST be

Re: Comments Draft

2005-08-01 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-01 18:30]: On Sunday, July 31, 2005, at 10:24 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: This undermines the purpose of the link. I'd say that not being able to tell whether @href in [EMAIL PROTECTED]in-reply-to] is dereferencable or not is what undermines link.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-31 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* David Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-31 02:20]: Saturday, July 30, 2005, 9:55:33 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: link rel=in-reply-to ... link rel=in-reply-to-feed ... / /link I'm not at all keen on extending the link element in this way. Atom Publishing Servers that don't know

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-31 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-31 00:30]: I agree. I'd much rather avoid introducing a new namespace for this tho. Nested link elements if just fine I think link rel=in-reply-to href=... link rel=source href=... / /link Nope. As I just wrote in reply to David Powell, sec. 6

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-31 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-31 01:15]: I could add more, but instead, here's my suggestion for replacing that sentence: If the resource being replied to is an atom:entry, the value of the href attribute MUST be the atom:id of the atom:entry. If the value of the

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-31 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 4:47:44 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Strictly speaking, per Extensions To the Atom Vocabulary (sec. 6.2), an Atom processor must treat the nested link as it would treat any other Structured Extension Element (sec. 6.4.2). Only child elements of atom:entry, atom:feed, and

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread Graham
On 30 Jul 2005, at 1:38 am, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-30 01:40]: It's really just a hint as to where original entries MIGHT be found. “originally-at?” source? Graham

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-30 18:10]: Yeah, source is likely the most logical choice, but I didn't want to confuse folks with a link @rel=source that has a different meaning from atom:source. An argument by way of which I came around to Antone’s suggested “start-of-thread,”

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, July 30, 2005, at 02:38 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * James M Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-30 18:10]: Yeah, source is likely the most logical choice, but I didn't want to confuse folks with a link @rel=source that has a different meaning from atom:source. An argument by way of

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Justin Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-30 23:25]: I'm quite happy with 'replies-source' because it does not indComparing to mail seems to be a reasonable thing to do - mail has a considerable amount of prior implementation and understanding from which concepts can be drawn. However,

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread James M Snell
I agree. I'd much rather avoid introducing a new namespace for this tho. Nested link elements if just fine I think link rel=in-reply-to href=... link rel=source href=... / /link Using source in this context I think avoids the potential confusion had the link appeared without nesting.

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread James M Snell
One challenge is that for anything besides references to Atom entries, there is no guarantee that in-reply-to links will be non-traversable. For instance, if someone were to go and define a behavior for using in-reply-to with RSS, the href of the link may point to the same URL that the RSS

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread Antone Roundy
On Saturday, July 30, 2005, at 04:37 PM, James M Snell wrote: One challenge is that for anything besides references to Atom entries, there is no guarantee that in-reply-to links will be non-traversable. For instance, if someone were to go and define a behavior for using in-reply-to with

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread David Powell
Saturday, July 30, 2005, 9:55:33 PM, Antone Roundy wrote: link rel=in-reply-to ... link rel=in-reply-to-feed ... / /link I'm not at all keen on extending the link element in this way. Atom Publishing Servers that don't know about this extension that receive an entry containing

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread David Powell
Sunday, July 31, 2005, 1:09:44 AM, I wrote: I don't believe that atom:link _isn't_ usefully extensible other than by er, that should be is -- Dave

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-30 Thread Eric Scheid
On 31/7/05 7:47 AM, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I¹m -1 on using ³replies-source²; I should have said so more explicitly before. To me it is non-sensical, as it parses as ³the source of replies,² which is the opposite relationship of what it¹s supposed to express. It¹s not where the

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-29 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-29 02:40]: On Thursday, July 28, 2005, at 05:58 PM, James M Snell wrote: root is now called replies-source... which is a horrible name but I'm not sure what else to call it How about start-of-thread. Or maybe “parent-entries?” Regards, --

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-29 Thread Antone Roundy
On Friday, July 29, 2005, at 02:41 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Antone Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-29 02:40]: On Thursday, July 28, 2005, at 05:58 PM, James M Snell wrote: root is now called replies-source... which is a horrible name but I'm not sure what else to call it How about

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-29 Thread James M Snell
Right. Nor is there any guarantee that the referenced entity will actually contain the original entry... e.g. it's possible that it could point to a feed that has been updated such that the original entry has already moved off of it. It's really just a hint as to where original entries

Re: Comments Draft

2005-07-28 Thread Antone Roundy
On Thursday, July 28, 2005, at 05:58 PM, James M Snell wrote: * root is now called replies-source... which is a horrible name but I'm not sure what else to call it How about start-of-thread.