Re: PaceEntryMediatype
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Henry Story
Dec 9, 2006, 1:27:15 PM12/9/06
to Jan Algermissen, Baker Mark, Asbjørn Ulsberg, Roundy Antone, Atom Syntax, atom...@googlegroups.com
On 9 Dec 2006, at 03:57, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
>
> On 12/8/06, Asbjørn Ulsberg <asb...@tigerstaden.no> wrote:
>
>>> Both link relations are identical,
>>> but the client has absolutely no clue before it GETs the URI
>>> whether what
>>> sits on the other end is an Atom Feed or an Atom Entry.
>>
>> Nor should it need to distinguish
>
> Asbjørn, the link is to the resource, not a particular
> representation of it.
> The media type is just a hint, what you get upon a GET can vary and
> your client should prepare for that.
> On Dec 9, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Mark Baker wrote:
>
> On 12/8/06, Asbjørn Ulsberg <asb...@tigerstaden.no> wrote:
>
>>> Both link relations are identical,
>>> but the client has absolutely no clue before it GETs the URI
>>> whether what
>>> sits on the other end is an Atom Feed or an Atom Entry.
>>
>> Nor should it need to distinguish
>
> Asbjørn, the link is to the resource, not a particular
> representation of it.
> The media type is just a hint, what you get upon a GET can vary and
> your client should prepare for that.
This is a problem that has been concerning me for a while.
In Atom Owl I have been toying with representing a link relation as
pointing to a representation, by thinking of it as follows
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