[georss] GeoRSS Location References

[Sean Gillies]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:42:25PM -0700, Ron Lake wrote:
>> Why not use a separate, language independent link like xlink:href as in
>> GML (any property can have this) or like rdf:resource as in RDF.
> 
> rdf:resource is a language construct -- not a predicate, which is what
> is being looked for here. 
> 
> xlink:href has weaker semantics than atom:link, in my opinion.
> 
> Regards,

Why not use XLink? Because atom:link (modeled after HTML links) is the
way the Atom community does resource relationships. Why did HTML links
win the debate in the Atom WG? It's hard to tell from a quick look
through the archives.


Sean