Re: Feed History -03

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 17, 2005, at 4:10 AM, Henry Story wrote:

> Yes. I agree the problem also exists for complex extensions. My  
> question is the following:
>
> How can a parser that parses atom and unknown extensions, know when  
> to apply the xml base to
> an extension element automatically?

It can't.

> Anyway to summarise: if you don't want to use the atom:link element  
> then perhaps it would
> be best to use the xlink:link attributes. I have only read that  
> spec quickly [1] but this would
> mean that the following
>
>   <fh:history xlink:href="./archives.archive1.atom">

That would work.  I haven't been following this discussion closely  
enough to understand why there's resistance to <atom:link rel="some- 
history-thing" ...>

 -Tim