Re: Letter from Planet Web on identifiers

[steve jenson <stevej@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 29, 2004, at 12:12 PM, Tim Bray wrote:

> 3. Request
>
> I'll do this formally on the Wiki and post here again.  But I want to 
> change the wording of the description of link and id as follows
>
> 4.13.2: The "atom:link" element is the URI for this entry, seen as a 
> Web Resource.  An entry must have one and exactly one atom:link.
>
> [End of story.  I totally want to get rid of the "alternate" stuff, 
> which is a "wouldn't this be nice" feature].

So you're proposing abandoning XHTML link? Or just the use of
'rel' so that link has only one meaning?

Personally, I really like reusing the xhtml link tag the way we're 
currently using it, it's made writing editing tools for Atom easier. I 
would rather we used a different tag if we want to enforce a '1 and 
only 1' relationship.


-steve