Re: PaceURINomenclature and PaceOnlyMemberURI

On 8/18/06, Elias Torres <elias-teabWVY4yyH1P9xLtpHBDw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I meant from Atom Syntax:
>
> """The value "self" signifies that the IRI in the value of the href
> attribute identifies a resource equivalent to the containing element."""
>
> Joe has said that self is ambiguous according to syntax I'd assume and
> Asbjørn mentioned the following today:
>
> """So, if the <link> element with a @rel attribute whose value is 'self'
> shows up as a child node of <atom:entry>, its @href attribute points to
> the URI where you can find this exact Atom Entry Document. Thus, 'self'
> is a perfect link relation to use for "public" GET operations, while
> 'edit' is the one defined and used by APP."""
>
> Is that understanding of self incorrect then? I'm curious. If it's
> incorrect and ambiguous, are there any proper and useful scenarios to
> use 'self'?

It is incorrect, but that's mostly because of a small bug in the
Atom Syndication Format. You see, both an Atom Feed and
an Atom Entry have the same media type, application/atom+xml.
So I have no idea if

 <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href=""/>

points to an Entry or a Feed. Now for a single Entry I have a
perfectly good use case for that URI to point to a Feed: The
feed represents the entry and all of the entries in that
feed are comments.

  -joe

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