Re: PaceServiceElement created

[Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:31:18 -0600, Antone Roundy <antone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I've posted PaceServiceElement on the wiki.  Since it's not scheduled
> for discussion yet, I'll just post the first little bit so that you'll
> know what it's about when it gets to the Proceed list.  (Note however
> that it is related to PaceIntrospection, which is currently under
> discussion).
> 
> Abstract
> 
>         This proposal defines a new element to be used in place of
> link[@rel="service.*"].
> 
> Related and Conflicting Proposals
> 
>      * PaceLinkPurpose
>      * PaceLinkConstruct
>      * PaceIntrospection
> 
> Rationale
> 
>         If PaceLinkPurpose is adopted, then link[@rel="service.post"] and
> link[@rel="service.edit"] will be clearly outside of the boundaries set
> for the link element (neither is an appropriate value for a clickable
> link), and thus will need a new element. Even if PaceLinkPurpose is not
> adopted, moving this logical group of @rel values to their own element
> would help to avoid excessive overloading of the link element.

I've looked at this again and instead of:

<atom:service name="edit" href="http://example.org/blah"/>

I would much prefer:

<atom:edit>http://example.org/blah</atom:/edit>

   -joe