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PaceNoAlternateForFeed


Abstract

Allow publishers to indicate when they have no alternate link for a feed.

Author: BillDehora

Status

Open

Incept: 2005-05-09

Written against: [WWW]draft-08

Rationale

Not all publishers have a suitable alternate link for a feed. Example cases include [WWW]subversion repositories, [WWW]mail archives.

Proposal

In section 4.1.1 change the tenth bullet point

 o atom:feed elements MUST contain at least one atom:link element
      with a relation of "alternate".

to

 o atom:feed elements MUST contain either and cannot contain both
     - one or more atom:link elements with a relation of "alternate".
     - one and only one atom:link element with a relation of "no-alternate".

Impacts

Notes

fragment example derived from 1.1 example 2 in [WWW]draft-08

<feed xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#draft-ietf-atompub-format-08">
     <title type="text">dive into mark</title>
     <subtitle type="html">
       A &lt;em&gt;lot&lt;/em&gt; of effort
       went into making this effortless
     </subtitle>
     <updated>2005-04-02T12:29:29Z</updated>
     <id>tag:example.org,2003:3</id>
     <link rel="no-alternate" />
     <copyright>Copyright (c) 2003, Mark Pilgrim</copyright>

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