Re: collections (was: Last whack at the issues)

On 10/8/06 11:13 AM, "Duncan Cragg" 
<duncan-j+cCvfF9c1rYtjvyW6yDsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there one 'collection' Atom Feed for APP use, and one normal
> Atom Feed for subscribers?  In other words, is the collection
> URI also the Atom Feed URI?  If not, it would be nice to say so
> and to say why not. I don't see any reason for two URIs but
> would like to see arguments for it if so.

In the simplest case: one collection, producing one subscription.

It is also entirely possible for multiple subscription feeds to be produced
from one collection, such as category subscriptions.

Further, it is entirely possible for there to be multiple collections which
end up being published as one subscription feed. Think collections of
entries, photos, reviews, caldav events ... all surfacing as one "my blog"
subscription feed.

And of course combine the two.. it's possible for multiple collections to
provide piecemeal input to multiple subscriptions.

Also note, and this is interesting, one might have an entries collection
managed by your blog provider, but the photos collection could be managed at
flickr ... and both being combined into a subscription feed. Thus two
completely different back end server systems for collections.

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