Re: [syndication] Is a Feed the right place for your Data?

[Rick Bradley <roundeye@roundeye.net>]

* Ken MacLeod (ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us) [031107 11:24]:
> The issue/suggestion originated in a discussion about "search".  For
> Atom, we'd already concluded that search results are no different than
> a feed, so search results use feed format.  Another issues was
> querying for "all entries" -- for some sites that could be thousands
> of entries, way too big for one result file.  Yet another issue was
> that searches by nature are usually dynamic, when the result set for
> now-archived entries could easily be made logically static (which has
> HTTP and web benefits, it doesn't mean they can't be dynamically
> generated anyway).

A feed container for a set of search results is one step removed from a
feed container for a search - the difference being that the latter would
execute the search (if necessary) to fill the feed container.  This
smells a lot like a database 'view', which smells a lot like a document
SOAP packet, which looks like a REST GET request, which ...

When I see the analogies lining up like that I start thinking someone
must be on to something.

Rick
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