Re: service documents

Eric and James, 

> "I would say that all essential functions of LDP are exposed as affordances within ALL resources."

If all the hypermedia/affordances (aka "directed interaction") stuff was available in the atompub  services and entries, what else does the service document need to provide ?    

Roger

>> p.s. related: why does AtomPub have a 'separate' format for it's root
>> document ?
> 
> because everything else they have (collections and entries) are not a very
> good match. some people argued that the service document could be some
> variation of a collection, but then it would have had so many differences
> from all other collections that maybe it's not worth trying to make it
> look similar. in the end, that's more a matter of taste than anything
> else, as long as you accept that there was some need to have some document
> that allows clients to discover collections, and for that document some
> representation was defined.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> dret.
>