Re: Proposal: rel="payment"

> What do you think of the application of rel="payment" to a feed like
> mine (where the rel="payment" link goes to a purchase page for the
> commodity described by the feed entry)?

This is exactly one of the use cases we had in mind -- a blog author
could write a book review, for example, and then include an amazon
affilliate link with rel="payment" that brings the user to the
purchase location for that book.

Now... a more technical question: It seems that it would be silly to
limit the use of the rel="payment" element to one per RSS item. As an
example, I might compare several products in a blog entry and wish to
include payment links for all of them. So how should an aggregator
deal with the existence of multiple payment links?

-Josh


On 7/31/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joshua Kinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > The obvious way to do this properly, other than your namespace
> > > suggestion, is (in Atom at least) through a new <atom:link
> > > rel="payment"> element.
> >
> > I am now working with some folks from the Yahoo! Media RSS group to
> > propose exactly this.... a registered rel="payment" attribute for the
> > <atom:link> element.
> 
> Excellent.
> 
> What do you think of the application of rel="payment" to a feed like
> mine (where the rel="payment" link goes to a purchase page for the
> commodity described by the feed entry)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
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