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Re: atom:category excludes atom:* children?


Ben Ramsey wrote:

On 3/12/08 12:51 PM, Bill de hOra wrote:

The feedvalidator follows the RNC and marks this construct as an error

    <category  term='holidays' label='Holidays'>
       <link rel='alternate' type='application/atom+xml'
           href='https://example.org/dehora/categories/holidays' />
    </category>
Why - it would be nice to supply a feed link for a category, and not do weird things with the scheme/term attributes. And I note that atom:link has the same restriction in the RNC.
What's wrong with using the scheme attribute to convey this information? Specifically, I use an AtomPub Category Document for my schemes. This way, I don't have to use a Feed to represent a listing of categories. 

Two things:

1: the scheme attribute is a URI indicating the namespace, not a link.
2: the scheme is arguably not adequate to express something like a category feed; it does tell you the vocabulary/type of the category item, but not that there's an alternate/related resource. 

Bill