Re: Link Header draft

...assuming we want a registry. Doing so would be a fairly large  
change from the model of HTML -- where the profile attribute allows  
extensibility, and that of Atom, where URIs provide extensibility.


On 2007/02/17, at 5:49 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> I don't know that either of these is workable, given that HTML and  
>> Atom
>> both use link relations.
>
> Atom has a document-level hyperlinking element with link types? I  
> thought
> the linking in Atom was from individual feeds, not from the whole
> document.
>
> If the linking in Atom is indeed from the whole document, such that it
> makes sense to have it apply at the HTTP level, and if those  
> relationships
> aren't compatible with HTML's, then we have a problem -- you can  
> easily
> imagine a CDF situation with mixed Atom and HTML with Link:  
> headers, and I
> can't see that either registry would "win" over the other. This would
> imply that HTTP would need yet another third registry for  
> disambiguation.
>
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