Re: Proposal to register rel="about"

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 15/9/08 4:52 AM, "Erling Wegger Linde" <erlingwl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is interesting. You are saying that rel="alternate" has the same
> semantics as the proposed rel="about".

If this is so, then what @rel would I use for the following use case:

    I've just published the program schedule for a conference I'm
organising, and wrote a news item to announce the fact. There are thus two
resources in play

    1) http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/schedule.shtml
    2) http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/news.shtml#news-15

In the atom feed I link to (2) with @rel="alternate", and to (1) via an
inline <a/> link in the <summary type="html"/>. I would like to make an
explicit link from the news entry to the resource which is the subject of
the news entry, something more explicit than @rel="related" (which I would
use to link to other related resources, such as the list of sessions or the
registration form).

The following makes sense to me, intuitively...

    <entry>
        <id>tag:www.oz-ia.org,2008:/2008/news/15</id>
        <title>Program Schedule is online</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
            href="http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/news.shtml#news-15"; />

        <link rel="about" type="text/html"
            href="http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/schedule.shtml"; />

        <link rel="related" type="text/html"
            href="http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/program.shtml"; />
        <link rel="related" type="text/html"
            href="http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/register.shtml"; />

        <!-- ... -->
    </entry>

(Apologies in advance if I'm usurping the sense of @rel='about' and
derailing this thread)

e.