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Feeds MUST have alternate links?



The 01 draft says:

  4.2.2  "atom:link" Element

    The "atom:link" element is a Link construct that conveys a URI
    associated with the feed.  The nature of the relationship as well as
    the link itself is determined by the element's content.

    atom:head elements MUST contain at least one atom:link element with a
    rel attribute value of "alternate".

Why must I produce an alternate representation of the feed?

I have a practical reason for asking. Someone asked me to produce a
feed for all the photographs on norman.walsh.name. I can do that, but
I'm not going to produce an HTML page that is an alternate
representation of that feed. I suppose I could, but I'd rather not and
I don't see why I should.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

-- 
Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx> | When dealing with the insane, the best
http://nwalsh.com/            | method is to pretend to be
                              | sane.--Hermann Hesse

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