Re: ATOM representation of search result facets
Erik Wilde <[email protected]>
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> I don't know. If you override the meaning of an attribute in atom, > can it still be safely processed as atom? I know, you're going to > say, depends on which attribute. I'm not as strict in what I do > as in what I tell others to do ;-). Just trying to think it through! well-designed media types do not allow you to do this. you can extend such a media type, but if your extension is a "mustUnderstand", then you're messing with the foundation. then again, there are media types that have "mustUnderstand" semantics built into the foundation, so that an extension can signal what you can and cannot safely assume when you're not supporting the extension. atom has no such mechanism, and defining an extension that alter the semantics of atom markup would be bad design. cheers, dret. -- erik wilde | mailto:[email protected] - tel:+1-510-2061079 | | UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) | | http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret |