RE: Discovery of APP service documents

["Brian Smith" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Cheng wrote:
> <link rel="service" class="preferred" 
> type="application/atomsvc+xml" href="..." />
> 
> If anyone has feedback about this approach, I would love to 
> hear it. Hopefully as time goes by and Atom implementations 
> catch up in features and real-world experience, we can switch 
> to Atom as the default.

It seems simpler to just re-use the mechanism that Microsoft suggested
for feed auto-discovery: the server orders the <link> elements from best
to worst, best first. This is easy to understand and also implies a
convenient limitation: only one service document can be considered
"active" at one time. That is, if there are multiple service documents,
they should be considered alternatives to each other.

Anyway, could you provide a fuller example of your proposed mechanism?
There could be many feeds associated with a particular blog entry:

* a feed for the entire blog (the most common type)
* a feed for the particular entry, to keep track of modifications to
just that entry
* a feed for comments for this particular entry
* a feed for all the comments for the whole weblog
* a feed for trackbacks
* a feed that combines comments, trackbacks, and/or modifications to the
entry.

The immediate problem I am trying to solve is "Which
workspace/collection should I post my comments to?"

Regards,
Brian