PaceFeedIdOrAlternate

Abstract

Require either an alternate link or an id as children of atom:feed elements.

Status

Withdrawn!

Rationale

A number of use cases (e.g., subversion change logs and email attachments) have been defined in which there is no alternate html representation.

Proposal

In atompub-format-07, change one bullet in section 4.1.1.

Before:

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

After:

• atom:feed elements that contain no child atom:id element MUST contain at least one atom:link element with a relation of "alternate".

Impacts

Tools which expect feed level links (such as Bloglines) will need to be prepared for the absense of this information.

Notes

see also: PaceFeedIdOrSelf

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