Re: MUST a collection be returned as an Atom feed?

[Joe Gregorio <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jan Algermissen
<algermissen1971@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Joe Gregorio wrote:
>> Just like when I retrieve an HTML page I know that it might contain links
>> to other resources, but that's as far as my 'knowing' goes. I don't 'know'
>> what the actual URIs are, or even if they are going to be there, i.e. it
>> could be a feed with 0 entries.
>
> Yes, agreed.
>
> OTH, this is an incidental property of Atom feeds. **Suppose** Atom feeds
> had a mandatory link, would you
>
> consider the feed format to be bad design   or
>
> consider AtomPub bad design because it made returning that feed format
> mandatory?

Neither.

Yes, let's presume that an atom:link rel="foo" was a MUST. So what?

   Thanks,
   -joe