Re: ATOM representation of search result facets

"Rushforth, Peter" wrote:
>
> As long as you don't use the application/atom+xml media type to
> describe it, you should be OK.
> 

You're not wrong, but I think there's a better way to look at it -- by
staying true to the generic media type, rather than forking it to be a
custom media type for one point of data.  This can be done by extending
Atom (which doesn't change the media type, i.e. it's still application/
atom+xml), or perhaps just using an ugly hack like this:

<link rel="related" title="Canon" type="application/atom+xml"
href="/search?q=35mm&fq=Manufacturer%3DCanon...">length=134</link>

This just introduces some domain-specific vocabulary in the link text,
without tripping up any generic Atom processors.  To me this is far
preferable to excluding generic Atom processors from the communication
by introducing a new media type such processors won't recognize as
something they can handle (not without sniffing, anyway).

-Eric