| Network Working Group | J.C. Gregorio, Editor |
| INTERNET DRAFT | BitWorking, Inc |
| <draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-07.txt> | B. de hOra, Editor |
| Category: Standards Track | Propylon Ltd. |
| Expires: July 2006 | January 2006 |
The Atom Publishing Protocol
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-07.txt
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The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on HTTP transport of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format (RFC4287).
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The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources using HTTP [RFC2616] and XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. The protocol supports the creation of arbitrary web resources and provides facilities for:
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
Note: The Introspection Document allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987], as well as URIs [RFC3986]. Every URI is an IRI, so any URI can be used where an IRI is needed. How to map an IRI to a URI is specified in Section 3.1 of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) [RFC3987].
For convenience, this protocol may be referred to as the "Atom Protocol" or "APP".
URI/IRI - A Uniform Resource Identifier and Internationalized Resource Identifier. These terms and the distinction between them are defined in [RFC3986] and [RFC3987].
Resource - A network-accessible data object or service identified by an IRI, as defined in [RFC2616]. See [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] for further discussion on resources.
The phrase "the IRI of a document" in this specification is shorthand for "an IRI which, when dereferenced, is expected to produce that document as a representation".
Representation - An entity included with a request or response as defined in [RFC2616].
Collection - A resource that contains a set of member IRIs. See Section 8.
Member - A resource whose IRI is listed in a Collection.
Introspection Document - A document that describes the location and capabilities of one or more Collections. See Section 7.
The Atom Publishing Protocol uses HTTP to edit and author web resources. The Atom Protocol uses the following HTTP methods:
Along with operations on resources, the Atom Protocol provides list-based structures, called Collections, for managing and organising resources, called Members. Collections contain the IRIs of, and metadata about, their Member resources. For authoring and editing of resources to commence, an Atom Protocol client can examine server-defined groups of Collections, called Introspection Documents.
Client Server | | | 1.) GET to IRI of Introspection Document | |------------------------------------------>| | | | 2.) Introspection Document | |<------------------------------------------| | |
Client Server | | | 1.) POST to IRI of Collection | |------------------------------------------>| | | | 2.) 201 Created | |<------------------------------------------| | |
Once a resource has been created and its IRI is known, that IRI may be used to retrieve, update, and delete the resource.
Client Server | | | 1.) GET to Member IRI | |------------------------------------------>| | | | 2.) Member Representation | |<------------------------------------------| | |
Client Server | | | 1.) PUT to Member IRI | |------------------------------------------>| | | | 2.) 200 OK | |<------------------------------------------|
Client Server | | | 1.) DELETE to Member Resource IRI | |------------------------------------------>| | | | 2.) 200 Ok | |<------------------------------------------| | |
To list the members of a Collection the client sends a GET request to the Collection's IRI. An Atom Feed Document is returned containing one Atom Entry for each member resource. See Section 9 and Section 10 for a description of the feed contents.
Client Server
| |
| 1.) GET to List IRI |
|------------------------------->|
| |
| 2.) 200 OK, Atom Feed Doc |
|<-------------------------------|
| |
The Atom Protocol uses the response status codes defined in HTTP to indicate the success or failure of an operation. Consult the HTTP specification [RFC2616] for detailed definitions of each status code. It is strongly recommended that entities contained within HTTP 4xx and 5xx responses include a human readable, natural language explanation of the error.
The data format in this specification is specified in terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. Atom Publishing Protocol Documents MUST be well-formed XML. This specification does not define any DTDs for Atom Protocol, and hence does not require them to be "valid" in the sense used by XML.
This specification uses a shorthand for two common terms: the phrase "Information Item" is omitted when discussing Element Information Items and Attribute Information Items. Therefore, when this specification uses the term "element," it is referring to an Element Information Item in Infoset terms. Likewise, when it uses the term "attribute," it is referring to an Attribute Information Item.
The namespace name [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] for the XML format described in this specification is:
http://purl.org/atom/app#
This specification uses the prefix "app:" for the namespace name. The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically significant.
This specification also uses the prefix "atom:" for "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", the namespace name of the Atom Publishing Format [RFC4287].
XML elements defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]. When xml:base is used, it serves the function described in section 5.1.1 of [RFC3986], establishing the base URI (or IRI) for resolving any relative references found within the effective scope of the xml:base attribute.
Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:lang attribute, whose content indicates the natural language for the element and its descendents. The language context is only significant for elements and attributes declared to be "Language-Sensitive" by this specification. Requirements regarding the content and interpretation of xml:lang are specified in Section 2.12 of XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204].
appCommonAttributes =
attribute xml:base { atomUri }?,
attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }?,
undefinedAttribute* Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RNC]. A complete schema appears in Appendix B. However, the text of this specification provides the definition of conformance.
For authoring to commence, a client needs to first discover the capabilities and locations of collections offered. This is done using Introspection Documents. An Introspection Document describes workspaces, which are server-defined groupings of collections.
Introspection documents are identified with the "application/atomserv+xml" media type (see Section 15).
While an introspection document allows multiple workspaces, there is no requirement that a service support multiple workspaces. In addition, a collection MAY appear in more than one workspace.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<service xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/app#">
<workspace title="Main Site" >
<collection
title="My Blog Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/main" >
<member-type>entry</member-type>
<list-template>http://example.org/{index}</list-template>
</collection>
<collection
title="Pictures"
href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" >
<member-type>media</member-type>
<list-template>http://example.org/p/{index}</list-template>
</collection>
</workspace>
<workspace title="Side Bar Blog">
<collection title="Remaindered Links"
href="http://example.org/reilly/list" >
<member-type>entry</member-type>
<list-template>http://example.org/l/{index}</list-template>
</collection>
</workspace>
</service>
This Introspection Document describes two workspaces. The first, called "Main Site", has two collections called "My Blog Entries" and "Pictures" whose IRIs are "http://example.org/reilly/main" and "http://example.org/reilly/pic" respectively. "My Blog Entries" is an Entry collection and "Pictures" is a Media collection. Entry and Media collections are discussed in Section 7.2.4.
The second workspace is called "Side Bar Blog" and has a single collection called "Remaindered Links" whose collection IRI is "http://example.org/reilly/list". "Remaindered Links" is an Entry collection.
The root of an introspection document is the "app:service" element.
namespace app = "http://purl.org/atom/app#"
start = appService
The "app:service" element is the container for introspection information associated with one or more workspaces. An app:service element MUST contain one or more app:workspace elements.
appService =
element app:service {
appCommonAttributes,
( appWorkspace+
& extensionElement* )
} The "app:workspace" element contains information elements about the collections of resources available for editing. The app:workspace element MUST contain one or more app:collection elements.
appWorkspace =
element app:workspace {
appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text },
( appCollection+
& extensionElement* )
} In an app:workspace element, the first app:collection element SHOULD refer to the preferred or primary collection. In the following example, the "Entries" collection would be considered the "preferred" or "primary" collection of the workspace:
<service>
<workspace title="My Blog">
<collection title="Entries" ... >
<collection title="Photos" ... >
</workspace>
</service>
The app:workspace element MUST contain a "title" attribute, which gives a human-readable name for the workspace. This attribute is Language-Sensitive.
The "app:collection" describes a collection. This specification defines one child element: app:member-type.
appCollection =
element app:collection {
appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text },
attribute href { text },
( appMemberType
& appListTemplate
& extensionElement* )
} The app:collection element MUST contain a "title" attribute, whose value gives a human-readable name for the collection. This attribute is Language-Sensitive.
The app:collection element MUST contain a "href" attribute, whose value gives the IRI of the collection.
The app:collection element MUST contain one "app:member-type" element. The app:member-type element value specifies the types of members that can appear in the collection.
appMemberType =
element app:member-type {
appCommonAttributes,
( appTypeValue )
}
appTypeValue = "entry" | "media" An Entry POSTed to a collection MUST meet the constraints of the app:member-type element.
This specification defines two values for the app:member-type element:
To add members to a collection, clients send POST requests to the collection's URI. Collections MAY impose constraints on the media-types that are created in a collection and MAY generate a response with a status code of 415 ("Unsupported Media Type"). On successful creation, the response to the POST request MUST return a Location: header with the URI of the newly created resource.
Below, the client requests to create a resource with an Atom Entry representation in a collection:
POST /edit HTTP/1.1 Host: example.org User-Agent: Thingio/1.0 Content-Type: application/atom+xml Content-Length: nnn <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title> <link href="http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03"/> <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id> <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated> <summary>Some text.</summary> </entry>
The resource is created by sending an Atom Entry as the entity body.
Successful creation is indicated by a 201 created response and includes a Location: header:
HTTP/1.1 201 Created Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:17:11 GMT Content-Length: 0 Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
A POST to a collection creating a resource MAY contain a Title: header that indicates the client's suggested title for the resource. The Title header is primarily for use with Media collections and is RECOMMENDED for use with such collections. The server MAY ignore the content of the Title: header or modify the suggested title.
Title = "Title" ":" [text]
The syntax of this header MUST conform to the augmented BNF grammar in section 2.1 of the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616].
Entry Collections are collections that restrict their membership to Atom Entries. They are identified by having an app:member-type of "entry". Every member representation MUST contain an atom:link element with a link relation of "edit" that contains the IRI of the member resource. Member representations MAY contain an app:control element.
Media Collections are collections whose member representations are not constrained. They are identified by having an app:member-type of "media".
When a membership list resource returns an Atom Feed enumerating the contents of a Media Collection, all the Entries MUST have an atom:content element with a "src" attribute. When creating a public, read-only reference to the member resource, a client SHOULD use the "atom:content/@src" attribute value.
Collections, as identified in an Introspection Document, are resources that MUST provide representations in the form of Atom Feed documents when dereferencing the collection IRI. The entries in the returned Feed MUST be ordered by their 'atom:updated' property, with the most recently updated entries coming first in the document order. Every entry in the Feed Document MUST have an atom:link element with a relation of "edit" (See Section 10.1). Clients MUST NOT assume that an Atom Entry returned in the Feed is a full representation of a member resource. The value of atom:updated is only changed when the change to a member resource is considered significant. Insignificant changes do not result in changes to the atom:updated value and thus do not change the position of the corresponding entry in a membership list. Clients SHOULD be constructed with this in mind and SHOULD perform a GET on the member resource before editing.
Collections can contain large numbers of resources. A naive client such as a web spider or web browser could be overwhelmed if the response to a GET contained every entry in the collection, and the server would waste large amounts of bandwidth and processing time on clients unable to handle the response. For this reason, servers MAY return a partial listing containing the most recently updated member resources. Such partial feed documents MUST have an atom:link with a "next" relation whose "href" value is the IRI of the next partial listing of the collection (the least recently updated member resources) where it exists. This is called "collection paging".
Atom Protocol servers MUST provide representations of collections as Atom feed documents whose entries represent the collection's members. The returned Atom feed MAY NOT contain entries for all the collection's members. Instead, the Atom feed document MAY contain link elements with "rel" attribute values of "next", "previous", "start" and "end" that can be used to navigate through the complete set of matching entries.
For instance, suppose the client is supplied this IRI
http://example.org/entries/go
Supposing the collection contains member entries and the server as a matter of policy wishes to avoid generating feed documents with more than 10 entries, then the resulting Atom feed document represents the first page in a linked set of 10 feed documents. Within each feed document served, "next" and "prev" link elements reference the preceding and subsequent feed documents in the set. The "start" link element references the first feed document in the set. The "end" link element references the final feed document in the set.
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
...
<link rel="start"
href="http://example.org/entries/go" />
<link rel="next"
href="http://example.org/entries/2" />
<link rel="last"
href="http://example.org/entries/10" />
</feed>
The 'next' and 'prev' link elements for the feed located at http://example.org/entries/2 would look like this:
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
...
<link rel="start"
href="http://example.org/entries/go" />
<link rel="previous"
href="http://example.org/entries/go" />
<link rel="next"
href="http://example.org/entries/3" />
<link rel="last"
href="http://example.org/entries/10" />
</feed>
The Atom Protocol adds the value "edit" to the Atom Registry of Link Relations (see section 7.1 of [RFC4287]). The value of "edit" specifies that the IRI in the value of the href attribute is the IRI of the member resource, and is intended to be used to update and delete resources as described in this specification. This link relation MAY appear in both membership lists and in member representations.
This specification defines an Atom Format extension for publishing control called Atom Publishing Control. The namespace name for the Atom Publishing Control's XML vocabulary is "http://example.net/appns/". This specification uses "pub:" for the namespace prefix. The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically significant.
namespace pub = "http://example.net/appns/"
pubControl =
element pub:control {
atomCommonAttributes,
pubDraft?
& extensionElement
}
pubDraft =
element pub:draft { "yes" | "no" } The "pub:control" element MAY appear as a child of an "atom:entry" which is being created or updated via the Atom Publishing Protocol. The "pub:control" element, if it does appear in an entry, MUST only appear at most one time. The "pub:control" element is considered foreign markup as defined in Section 6 of [RFC4287].
The "pub:control" element and its child elements MAY be included in Atom Feed or Entry Documents.
The "pub:control" element MAY contain exactly one "pub:draft" element as defined here, and MAY contain zero or more extension elements as outlined in Section 6 of [RFC4287]. Both clients and servers MUST ignore foreign markup present in the pub:control element.
The number of "pub:draft" elements in "pub:control" MUST be zero or one. Its value MUST be one of "yes" or "no". A value of "no" means that the entry may be made publicly visible. If the "pub:draft" element is missing then the value is understood to be "no". If "pub:control" and/or the "pub:draft" elements are missing from an entry then the entry is not considered a draft and can be made publicly visible.
This is an example of a client creating a new entry with an image. The client has an image to publish and an entry that includes an HTML "img" element that uses that image. In this scenario we consider a client that has IRIs of two collections, an entry collection and a media collection, both of which were discovered through an introspection document. The IRI of the entry collection is:
http://example.net/blog/edit/
The IRI of the media collection is:
http://example.net/binary/edit
First the client creates a new image resource by POSTing the image to the IRI of the media collection.
POST /binary/edit/ HTTP/1.1 Host: example.net User-Agent: Thingio/1.0 Content-Type: image/png Content-Length: nnnn Title: A picture of the beach ...binary data...
The member resource is created and an HTTP status code of 201 is returned.
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:17:11 GMT
Content-Length: nnnn
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Location: http://example.net/binary/edit/b/129.png
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>A picture of the beach.</title>
<link rel="edit"
href="http://example.net/binary/edit/b/129.png"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-568596895695</id>
<updated>2005-09-02T10:30:00Z</updated>
<summary>Waves</summary>
<content type="image/png"
src="http://example.net/binary/readonly/129.png"/>
</entry> The client then POSTs the Atom Entry that refers to the newly created image resource. Note that the client takes the IRI http://example.net/binary/readonly/129.png and uses it in the 'img' element in the Entry content:
POST /blog/edit/ HTTP/1.1
Host: example.net
User-Agent: Thingio/1.0
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Content-Length: nnnn
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>What I did on my summer vacation</title>
<link href="http://example.org/atom05"/>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-ffb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da354efa6a</id>
<updated>2005-09-02T10:30:00Z</updated>
<summary>Beach!</summary>
<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>We went to the beach for summer vacation.
Here is a picture of the waves rolling in:
<img
src="http://example.net/binary/readonly/129.png"
alt="A picture of the beach."
/>
</p>
</div>
</content>
</entry> All instances of publishing Atom Format entries SHOULD be protected by authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources. Atom Protocol servers and clients MUST support one of the following authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both.
Atom Protocol servers and clients MAY support encryption of the session using TLS (see [RFC2246]).
There are cases where an authentication mechanism is not be required, such as a publicly editable Wiki, or when using POST to send comments to a site that does not require authentication from a commenter.
[rfc.comment.1: This section is incomplete; cgi-authentication is described but is unspecified.] This authentication method is included as part of the protocol to allow Atom Protocol servers and clients that cannot use HTTP Digest Authentication but where the user can both insert its own HTTP headers and create a CGI program to authenticate entries to the server. This scenario is common in environments where the user cannot control what services the server employs, but the user can write their own HTTP services.
The security of the Atom Protocol is based on HTTP Digest Authentication and/or CGI Authentication [rfc.comment.2: refers to incomplete section]. Any weaknesses in either of these authentication schemes will affect the security of the Atom Publishing Protocol.
Both HTTP Digest Authentication and CGI Authentication [rfc.comment.3: refers to incomplete section] are susceptible to dictionary-based attacks on the shared secret. If the shared secret is a password (instead of a random string with sufficient entropy), an attacker can determine the secret by exhaustively comparing the authenticating string with hashed results of the public string and dictionary entries.
See [RFC2617] for the description of the security properties of HTTP Digest Authentication.
[rfc.comment.4: expand on HTTP basic and digest authentication, or refer.]
[rfc.comment.5: talk here about denial of service attacks using large XML files, or the billion laughs DTD attack.]
An Atom Publishing Protocol Introspection Document, when serialized as XML 1.0, can be identified with the following media type:
Additional information:
| [RFC2119] | Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
| [RFC2246] | Dierks, T. and C. Allen, “The TLS Protocol Version 1.0”, RFC 2246, January 1999. |
| [RFC2616] | Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1”, RFC 2616, June 1999. |
| [RFC2617] | Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P.M., Hostetler, J.L., Lawrence, S.D., Leach, P.J., Luotonen, A., and L. Stewart, “HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication”, RFC 2617, June 1999. |
| [RFC3023] | Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, “XML Media Types”, RFC 3023, January 2001. |
| [RFC3986] | Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”, STD 66, RFC 3986, January 2005. |
| [RFC3987] | Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, “Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)”, RFC 3987, January 2005. |
| [RFC4287] | Nottingham, M. and R. Sayre, “The Atom Syndication Format”, RFC 4287, December 2005. |
| [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] | Yergeau, F, Paoli, J, Sperberg-McQueen, C, Bray, T, and E Maler, “Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)”, W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004. |
| [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] | Hollander, D, Bray, T, and A Layman, “Namespaces in XML”, W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January 1999. |
| [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627] | Marsh, J, “XML Base”, W3C REC W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627, June 2001. |
| [RNC] | Clark, J., “RELAX NG Compact Syntax”, December 2001. |
| [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] | Walsh, N and I Jacobs, “Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One”, W3C REC REC-webarch-20041215, December 2004. |
The content and concepts within are a product of the Atom community and the Atompub Working Group.
This appendix is informative.
The Relax NG schema explicitly excludes elements in the Atom Protocol namespace which are not defined in this revision of the specification. Requirements for Atom Protocol processors encountering such markup are given in Section 6.2 and Section 6.3 of [RFC4287].
# -*- rnc -*-
# RELAX NG Compact Syntax Grammar for the Atom Protocol
namespace app = "http://purl.org/atom/app#"
namespace local = ""
start = appService
# common:attrs
appCommonAttributes =
attribute xml:base { atomUri }?,
attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }?,
undefinedAttribute*
undefinedAttribute =
attribute * - (xml:base | xml:lang | local:*) { text }
atomUri = text
atomLanguageTag = xsd:string {
pattern = "[A-Za-z]{1,8}(-[A-Za-z0-9]{1,8})*"
}
# app:service
appService =
element app:service {
appCommonAttributes,
( appWorkspace+
& extensionElement* )
}
# app:workspace
appWorkspace =
element app:workspace {
appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text },
( appCollection+
& extensionElement* )
}
# app:collection
appCollection =
element app:collection {
appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text },
attribute href { text },
( appMemberType
& appListTemplate
& extensionElement* )
}
# app:member
appMemberType =
element app:member-type {
appCommonAttributes,
( appTypeValue )
}
appTypeValue = "entry" | "media"
# app:list-template
appListTemplate =
element app:list-template {
appCommonAttributes,
( appUriTemplate )
}
# Whatever an IRI template is, it contains at least {index}
appUriTemplate = xsd:string { pattern = ".+\{index\}.*" }
# Simple Extension
simpleExtensionElement =
element * - app:* {
text
}
# Structured Extension
structuredExtensionElement =
element * - app:* {
(attribute * { text }+,
(text|anyElement)*)
| (attribute * { text }*,
(text?, anyElement+, (text|anyElement)*))
}
# Other Extensibility
extensionElement =
simpleExtensionElement | structuredExtensionElement
# Extensions
anyElement =
element * {
(attribute * { text }
| text
| anyElement)*
}
# EOF
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-07: updated Atom refs to RFC4287; incorporated PaceBetterHttpResponseCode; PaceClarifyCollectionAndDeleteMethodByWritingLessInsteadOfMore; PaceRemoveAcceptPostText; PaceRemoveListTemplate2; PaceRemoveRegistry; PaceRemoveWhoWritesWhat; PaceSimplifyClarifyBetterfyRemoveBogusValidityText; PaceCollectionOrderSignificance; PaceFixLostIntrospectionText; PaceListPaging; PaceCollectionControl; element typo in Listing collections para3 (was app:member-type, not app:list-template); changed post atom entry example to be valid. Dropped inline use of 'APP'. Removed nested diagram from section 4. Added ed notes in the security section.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-06 - Removed: Robert Sayre from the contributors section per his request. Added in PaceCollectionControl. Fixed all the {daterange} verbage and examples so they all use a dash. Added full rnc schema. Collapsed Introspection and Collection documents into a single document. Removed {dateRange} queries. Renamed search to list. Moved discussion of media and entry collection until later in the document and tied the discussion to the Introspection element app:member-type.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-05 - Added: Contributors section. Added: de hOra to editors. Fixed: typos. Added diagrams and description to model section. Incorporates PaceAppDocuments, PaceAppDocuments2, PaceSimplifyCollections2 (large-sized chunks of it anyhow: the notions of Entry and Generic resources, the section 4 language on the Protocol Model, 4.1 through 4.5.2, the notion of a Collection document, as in Section 5 through 5.3, Section 7 "Collection resources", Selection resources (modified from pace which talked about search); results in major mods to Collection Documents, Section 9.2 "Title: Header" and brokeout para to section 9.1 Editing Generic Resources). Added XML namespace and language section. Some cleanup of front matter. Added Language Sensitivity to some attributes. Removed resource descriptions from terminology. Some juggling of sections. See: http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg01812.html.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-04 - Add ladder diagrams, reorganize, add SOAP interactions
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-03 - Incorporates PaceSliceAndDice3 and PaceIntrospection.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-02 - Incorporates Pace409Response, PacePostLocationMust, and PaceSimpleResourcePosting.
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-01 - Added in sections on Responses for the EditURI. Allow 2xx for response to EditURI PUTs. Elided all mentions of WSSE. Started adding in some normative references. Added the section "Securing the Atom Protocol". Clarified that it is possible that the PostURI and FeedURI could be the same URI. Cleaned up descriptions for Response codes 400 and 500.
Rev draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-00 - 5Jul2004 - Renamed the file and re-titled the document to conform to IETF submission guidelines. Changed MIME type to match the one selected for the Atom format. Numerous typographical fixes. We used to have two 'Introduction' sections. One of them was moved into the Abstract the other absorbed the Scope section. IPR and copyright notifications were added.
Rev 09 - 10Dec2003 - Added the section on SOAP enabled clients and servers.
Rev 08 - 01Dec2003 - Refactored the specification, merging the Introspection file into the feed format. Also dropped the distinction between the type of URI used to create new entries and the kind used to create comments. Dropped user preferences.
Rev 07 - 06Aug2003 - Removed the use of the RSD file for auto-discovery. Changed copyright until a final standards body is chosen. Changed query parameters for the search facet to all begin with atom- to avoid name collisions. Updated all the Entries to follow the 0.2 version. Changed the format of the search results and template file to a pure element based syntax.
Rev 06 - 24Jul2003 - Moved to PUT for updating Entries. Changed all the mime-types to application/x.atom+xml. Added template editing. Changed 'edit-entry' to 'create-entry' in the Introspection file to more accurately reflect its purpose.
Rev 05 - 17Jul2003 - Renamed everything Echo into Atom. Added version numbers in the Revision history. Changed all the mime-types to application/atom+xml.
Rev 04 - 15Jul2003 - Updated the RSD version used from 0.7 to 1.0. Change the method of deleting an Entry from POSTing <delete/> to using the HTTP DELETE verb. Also changed the query interface to GET instead of POST. Moved Introspection Discovery to be up under Introspection. Introduced the term 'facet' for the services listed in the Introspection file.
Rev 03 - 10Jul2003 - Added a link to the Wiki near the front of the document. Added a section on finding an Entry. Retrieving an Entry now broken out into its own section. Changed the HTTP status code for a successful editing of an Entry to 205.
Rev 02 - 7Jul2003 - Entries are no longer returned from POSTs, instead they are retrieved via GET. Cleaned up figure titles, as they are rendered poorly in HTML. All content-types have been changed to application/atom+xml.
Rev 01 - 5Jul2003 - Renamed from EchoAPI.html to follow the more commonly used format: draft-gregorio-NN.html. Renamed all references to URL to URI. Broke out introspection into its own section. Added the Revision History section. Added more to the warning that the example URIs are not normative.
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