Re: [apps-discuss] FYI: LINK and UNLINK

On 29/10/2013, at 4:59 PM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2013 10:48 PM, "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 24/09/2013, at 5:17 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Just a general FYI... I have submitted iteration -04 of the
> > > LINK/UNLINK draft with a few minor editorial fixes... and, I have
> > > formally requested Last Call status as an Independent Submission on
> > > the Standards Track.
> > >
> > >  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-link-method-04
> >
> > In Section 2 of -05:
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> > "For any pair of resources, exactly one relationship of any given type can exist."
> >
> > That's a new and apparently backwards-incompatible change to the model of linking on the Web... e.g., consider "stylesheet".
> >
> 
> No, read it again, as a uniqueness constraint on the tuple (resource, link relation, resource). That's not new or novel. 

Right. Thanks :)

> > Also, can these methods be made conditional?
> >
> 
> Yes. Of course.

Mention it in the text, then; it's not automatic. Examples would be good too.

Cheers,


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Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2013 06:01:57 UTC