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The Atom Publishing Protocol The Atom Publishing Protocol
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Abstract Abstract
This memo presents a protocol for using XML (Extensible Markup
Language) and HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) to edit content.
The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol The Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) is an application-level protocol
for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol at its core for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on
is the HTTP transport of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom HTTP transport of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is
format is documented in the Atom Syndication Format documented in the Atom Syndication Format
(draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt). (draft-ietf-atompub-format-11.txt).
Editorial Note Editorial Note
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Table of Contents Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. XML Namespace and Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. Protocol Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Protocol Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1 Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1 Retrieving an Introspection Document . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2 Editable Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.2 Creating a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2.1 Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3 Editing a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2.2 Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3.1 Retrieving a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.2.3 Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3.2 Updating a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.3 Capabilities Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.3.3 Deleting a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5.4 Listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.4 Listing Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.5 Success and Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.5 Success and Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. Atom Publishing Protocol Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6. XML-related Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1 Use of xml:base xml:lang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.1 Referring to Information Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2 Collection Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6.2 XML Namespace Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2.1 Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6.3 RELAX NG Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3 Introspection Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6.4 Use of xml:base and xml:lang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3.1 Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7. Introspection Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7. Introspection Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 7.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1 Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 7.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8. Collection Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7.3 Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.1 GET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7.3.1 The 'app:service' Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.2 POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 7.3.2 The 'app:workspace' Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.3 Title: Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 7.3.3 The 'app:collection' Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Entry Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7.3.4 The 'app:member-type' Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.1 Editing Entry Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7.3.5 The 'app:list-template' Element . . . . . . . . . . . 16
9.2 Role of Atom Entry Elements During Editing . . . . . . . . 23 8. Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10. Generic Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 8.1 Creating resources with POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.1 Editing Generic Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 8.1.1 Title: Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10.2 Title: Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 8.2 Entry Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
11. List Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8.2.1 Role of Atom Entry Elements During Editing . . . . . . 19
11.1 URI Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 8.3 Media Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.2 URI Template Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 8.3.1 Editing Media Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11.2.1 \{index\} URI template variable . . . . . . . . . . 27 9. Listing Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
11.2.2 \{daterange\} URI template variable . . . . . . . . 27 10. Atom Entry Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
11.2.3 Other URI Template parameters . . . . . . . . . . . 28 10.1 The 'edit' Link Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12. Atom Entry Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 10.2 Publishing Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
13. Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 10.2.1 The app:draft Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 11. Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 12. Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
16. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 13. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
16.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 14. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
16.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 15.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 15.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
B. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 41 A. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
B. RELAX NG Compact Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
C. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 40
1. Introduction 1. Introduction
The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for The Atom Publishing Protocol is an application-level protocol for
publishing and editing Web resources using HTTP [RFC2616] and XML 1.0 publishing and editing Web resources using HTTP [RFC2616] and XML 1.0
[W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. The protocol supports the creation of
arbitrary web resources and provides facilities for:
2. XML Namespace and Language o Collections: Sets of resources, which may be retrieved in whole or
in part.
The XML Namespaces URI [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] for the XML data o Introspection: Discovering and describing collections.
format described in this specification is: http://purl.org/atom/app#
XML elements defined by this specification MAY have an xml:lang o Editing: Creating, updating and deleting resources.
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 [W3C.REC-xml-
20040204], Section 2.12.
3. Notational Conventions 2. Notational Conventions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of Note: The Introspection Document allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987], as
a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RNC]. However, the text of well as URIs [RFC3986]. Every URI is an IRI, so any URI can be used
this specification provides the definition of conformance. where an IRI is needed. How to map an IRI to a URI is specified in
Section 3.1 of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
This specification uses the namespace prefix "app:" for the Namespace [RFC3987].
URI identified in Section 2 above. It uses the namespace prefix
"atom:" for the Namespace URI identified in [AtomFormat]. Note that
choices of namespace prefix are arbitrary and not semantically
significant.
4. Terminology 3. Terminology
For convenience, this protocol may be referred to as "Atom Protocol" For convenience, this protocol may be referred to as "Atom Protocol"
or "APP". This specification uses both internally. or "APP".
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".
URI/IRI - A Uniform Resource Identifier and Internationalized URI/IRI - A Uniform Resource Identifier and Internationalized
Resource Identifier, respectively. These terms (and the distinction Resource Identifier, respectively. These terms (and the distinction
between them) are defined in [RFC3986] and [RFC3987]. between them) are defined in [RFC3986] and [RFC3987].
Resource - A network data object or service that can be identified resource - A network data object or service that can be identified
by a URI, as defined in [RFC2616]. by a IRI, as defined in [RFC2616]. See [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215]
for further discussion on resources.
Representation - An entity included with a request or response as representation - An entity included with a request or response as
defined in [RFC2616]. defined in [RFC2616].
5. The Atom Publishing Protocol Model collection - A resource that contains a set of member IRIs, as
described in Section 8 of this specification.
The Atom Publishing Protocol is a subset of HTTP that is used to edit member - A resource whose IRI is listed in a collection.
resources on the web. The APP operates on collections of Web
resources. Collections are HTTP resources, as are the members of the IRI template - A parameterized string that becomes a IRI when the
collection. Both Collections and collection member resources support parameters are filled in. See Section 9.
the same basic interactions. The patterns of interaction are based
on the common HTTP verbs. introspection document - A document that describes the location and
capabilities of one or more collections. See Section 7
client writable element - An element of an Atom Entry whose value is
editable by the client and not enforced by the server.
server-controlled element - An element of an Atom Entry whose value
is enforced by the server and not editable by the client.
4. Protocol Model
The Atom Publishing Protocol uses HTTP to edit resources on the web.
It provides a list based mechanism for managing collections of
editable resources called member resources. Collections contain the
IRIs and metadata describing member resources. The APP uses these
HTTP verbs:
o GET is used to retrieve a representation of a resource or perform o GET is used to retrieve a representation of a resource or perform
a read-only query. a query.
o POST is used to create a new, dynamically-named resource, or to o POST is used to create a new, dynamically-named resource.
provide a block of data to a data-handling process.
o PUT is used to update a known resource. o PUT is used to update a known resource.
o DELETE is used to remove a resource. o DELETE is used to remove a resource.
5.1 Collections This diagram shows the APP model:
The APP groups resources into "Collections", which are analogous to
folders or directories found in a file system. In the figure we have
member resources in a collection.
+-------------------------+ +---------------+
| Collection | | Introspection | +------------+
| | | |-->| Collection |
| +----------------+ | +---------------+ | |
| | Member_A | | | | +--------+
| +----------------+ | | |-->| Member |
| | | | +--------+
| +----------------+ |
| | Member_B | |
| +----------------+ |
| |
| +----------------+ |
| | Member_C | |
| +----------------+ |
| | | |
| ... | | | .
| | .
| | .
| | | |
| +----------------+ | | | +--------+
| | Member_Oldest | | | |-->| Member |
| +----------------+ | | | +--------+
| | | |
+-------------------------+ +------------+
To add a new member to a collection an appropriate representation is
POSTed to the URI of the collection resource. Here we show it being
added to the beginnng of the list. The ordering of the members of
collections is in terms of the time at which each resource was last
updated, which includes the act of creating the resource. The
ordering of collection members is covered in more detail in Section 8
and Section 11.
+-------------------------+ The introspection document contains the IRIs of one or more
| Collection | collections. A collection contains IRIs and metadata describing
| | member resources. The protocol allows editing of resources with
POST | +----------------+ | representations of any media-type. Some types of collections are
--------->| Member_New | | specialized and restrict the resource representations of their
| +----------------+ | members.
5. Protocol Operations
5.1 Retrieving an Introspection Document
Client Server
| | | |
| +----------------+ | | 1.) GET to IRI of Introspection Document |
| | Member_A | | |------------------------------------------>|
| +----------------+ |
| | | |
| +----------------+ | | 2.) Introspection Document |
| | Member_B | | |<------------------------------------------|
| +----------------+ |
| | | |
| +----------------+ |
| | Member_C | | 1. The client sends a GET request to the IRI of the introspection
| +----------------+ | document.
2. The server responds with the introspection document which
enumerates the IRIs of all the collections, and the capabilities
of those collections, that the service supports.
5.2 Creating a Resource
Client Server
| | | |
| ... | | 1.) POST to IRI of Collection |
|------------------------------------------>|
| | | |
| +----------------+ | | 2.) 201 Created |
| | Member_Oldest | | |<------------------------------------------|
| +----------------+ |
| | | |
+-------------------------+
You'll note that up until now we haven't said what kinds of 1. The client POSTs a representation to the IRI of the collection.
representations we are expecting at each of the resources. There are
two kinds of collections, Entry and Generic. In Entry Collections
all the members MUST have representations as Atom Entries. For
further restrictions on Entry Collection see Section 9 The other type
of collection is a Generic Collection. Generic Collections make no
restriction on the representations of their member resources.
5.2 Editable Resources 2. If the member resource was created successfully the server
responds with a status code of 201 and a Location: header that
contains the IRI of the newly created member resource.
All the members of a collection are Editable Resources. An Editable 5.3 Editing a Resource
resource is a resource whose available HTTP methods can be used to
retrieve, update and delete it.
5.2.1 Read Once a resource has been created and its IRI is known, that IRI may
be used to retrieve, update, and delete it.
To retrieve a representation of the resource, you send a GET to the 5.3.1 Retrieving a Resource
URI of the Editable Resource. Remember that for members of Entry
Collections, the served representation will be an Atom Entry.
Client Server Client Server
| | | |
| 1.) GET to Editable Resource URI | | 1.) GET to Member IRI |
|------------------------------------------>| |------------------------------------------>|
| | | |
| 2.) 200 OK | | 2.) Member Representation |
|<------------------------------------------| |<------------------------------------------|
| | | |
1. The client sends a GET request to the member's URI. 1. The client sends a GET request to the member's IRI to retrieve
its representation .
2. The server responds with the representation of the resource. 2. The server responds with the representation of the resource.
5.2.2 Update 5.3.2 Updating a Resource
To update an Editable Resource the client will PUT an updated
representation to the URI of the resource.
Client Server Client Server
| | | |
| 1.) PUT to Editable Resource URI | | 1.) PUT to Member IRI |
|------------------------------------------>| |------------------------------------------>|
| | | |
| 2.) 200 OK | | 2.) 200 OK |
|<------------------------------------------| |<------------------------------------------|
1. The client PUTs an updated representation to the member's URI. 1. The client PUTs an updated representation to the member's IRI.
2. The server MAY respond with an updated representation of the
member's new state.
5.2.3 Delete 2. Upon a successful update of the resource the server responds with
a status code of 200.
An Editable Resource is deleted by sending it DELETE. Note that this 5.3.3 Deleting a Resource
also removes it from all the collections that it belonged to.
Client Server Client Server
| | | |
| 1.) DELETE to Editable Resource URI | | 1.) DELETE to Member Resource IRI |
|------------------------------------------>| |------------------------------------------>|
| | | |
| 2.) 200 Ok | | 2.) 200 Ok |
|<------------------------------------------| |<------------------------------------------|
| | | |
1. The client sends a DELETE request to the member's URI. 1. The client sends a DELETE request to the member's IRI.
2. The server responds with successful status code.
5.3 Capabilities Discovery
Each collection resource responds to GET and can return a Collection
Document as it's representation. The Collection Document enumerates
the capabilities of each collection and the format is described in
Section 6.2.
Client Server
| |
| 1.) GET to Collection |
|------------------------------->|
| |
| 2.) Collection Document |
|<-------------------------------|
| |
1. The client sends a GET request to the Collection Resource. 2. Upon the successful deletion of the resource the server responds
with a status code of 200.
2. The server responds with a Collection Document containing a Note: deleting a member also removes it from all the collections to
description of the capabilities of the collection. The content which it belongs.
of this document can vary based on aspects of the client request,
including, but not limited to, authentication credentials.
5.4 Listing 5.4 Listing Collections
Clients can request a listing of the Collection's membership. To enumerate the members of a collection the client sends a GET to
Listing the Editable Resources that are members of a collection is its IRI. This IRI is constructed from information in the
done using one of the List Resources in the Introspection Document, introspection document. An Atom Feed Document is returned with one
utilizing the 'app:uri-template' element. The List Resource returns Atom Entry for each member resource that matches the selection
Atom Feed Documents with one Atom Entry for each member resource that criteria in the IRI. See Section 9 and Section 10 for a description
match the selection criteria. This is true whether the collection is of the feed contents.
an Entry Collection or a Generic Collection. If an Entry Collection
is being interrogated, the entries returned by a list resource SHOULD
NOT to be considered complete representations of the member
resources. See Section 11 and Section 12 for more details on the
extensions and constraints found on the entries returned from List
Resources.
Client Server Client Server
| | | |
| 1.) GET to List Resource | | 1.) GET to List IRI |
|------------------------------->| |------------------------------->|
| | | |
| 2.) 200 OK, Atom Feed Doc | | 2.) 200 OK, Atom Feed Doc |
|<-------------------------------| |<-------------------------------|
| | | |
1. The client sends a GET request to the Collection's URI. 1. The client sends a GET request to the membership list IRI.
2. The server responds with an Atom Feed Document containing a full 2. The server responds with an Atom Feed Document containing the
or partial listing of the Collection's membership. IRIs of all the collection members that match the selection
criteria.
5.5 Success and Failure 5.5 Success and Failure
HTTP defines different classes of response, which are used by the The Atom Protocol uses HTTP status codes to signal the results of
Atom Protocol. HTTP status codes of the form 2xx signal that a protocol operations. Status codes of the form 2xx signal that a
request was successful. HTTP status codes of the form 4xx or 5xx request was successful. HTTP status codes of the form 4xx or 5xx
signal that an error has occurred, and the request has failed. signal that an error has occurred. Consult the HTTP specification
Consult the HTTP specification [RFC2616] for more detailed [RFC2616] for the definitions of HTTP status codes.
definitions of each status code.
6. Atom Publishing Protocol Documents 6. XML-related Conventions
This specification describes two kinds of Atom Publishing Protocol The data format in this specification is specified in terms of the
Documents: Atom Collections Documents and Atom Introspection XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204].
Documents. 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).
An Atom Collection Document is a representation of an Atom 6.1 Referring to Information Items
collection, including metadata about the collection, and some or all
of the members associated with it. Its root is the app:collection
element.
An Atom Introspection Document represents one or more workspaces, This specification uses a shorthand for two common terms: the phrase
which describe server-defined groupings of collections. Its root is "Information Item" is omitted when naming Element Information Items
the app:service element. 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.
namespace app = "..." start = appCollection | appIntrospection 6.2 XML Namespace Usage
Both kinds of Atom Publishing Protocol Documents are specified in The Namespace URI [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] for the data format
terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 ([W3C.REC- described in this specification is:
xml-20040204]). Atom Publishing Protocol Documents MUST be well-
formed XML. This specification does not define a DTD for Atom
Protocol, and hence does not require them to be valid (in the sense
used by XML).
Atom Collection Documents are identified with the "application/ http://purl.org/atom/app#
atomcoll+xml" media type.
Atom Introspection Documents are identified with the "application/ This specification uses the prefix "app:" for the Namespace URI. The
atomserv+xml" media type. choice of namespace prefix is not semantically significant.
Atom allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987], as well as URIs [RFC3986]. This specification also uses the prefix "atom:" for the Namespace URI
Every URI is an IRI, so any URI can be used where an IRI is needed. identified in [AtomFormat].
While IRIs must, for many protocols, be mapped to URIs prior to
dereferencing, they MUST NOT be so mapped for comparison when used in
atom:id. Section 3.1 of [RFC3987] describes how to map an IRI to a
URI when necessary.
6.1 Use of xml:base xml:lang 6.3 RELAX NG Schema
Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of
attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]. When xml:base is used in an a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RNC]. However, the text of
Atom Publishing Protocol Document, it serves the function described this specification provides the definition of conformance. A
in section 5.1.1 of [RFC3986], establishing the base URI (or IRI) for complete schema appears in Appendix B.
resolving any relative references found within the effective scope of
the xml:base attribute. 6.4 Use of xml:base and xml:lang
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 Any element defined by this specification MAY have an xml:lang
attribute, whose content indicates the natural language for the attribute, whose content indicates the natural language for the
element and its descendents. The language context is only element and its descendents. The language context is only
significant for elements and attributes declared to be "Language- significant for elements and attributes declared to be "Language-
Sensitive" by this specification. Requirements regarding the content Sensitive" by this specification. Requirements regarding the content
and interpretation of xml:lang are specified in XML 1.0 ([W3C.REC- and interpretation of xml:lang are specified in Section 2.12 of XML
xml-20040204]), Section 2.12. 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204], .
appCommonAttributes = appCommonAttributes =
attribute xml:base { atomUri }?, attribute xml:base { atomUri }?,
attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }?, attribute xml:lang { atomLanguageTag }?,
undefinedAttribute* undefinedAttribute*
6.2 Collection Documents 7. Introspection Documents
The Collection Document describes the capabilities of a Collection, 7.1 Introduction
the types of Entries that it will support, the URI Templates it
supports.
The Collection Document has the media-type 'application/atomcoll+xml' For authoring to commence, a client needs to first discover the
(see Section 15). capabilities and locations of collections offered. This is done
using Introspection Documents. An Introspection Document describes
workspaces, which are server-defined groupings of collections.
Here's an example document: 7.2 Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<app:collection xmlns:app="http://purl.org/atom/app#"> <service xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/app#">
<app:member-type>entry</pub:member-type> <workspace title="Main Site" >
<app:uri-template>http://example.org/{index}</pub:uri-template> <collection
<app:uri-template>http://example.org/{daterange}</pub:uri-template> title="My Blog Entries"
</app:collection> href="http://example.org/reilly/main" >
<member-type>entry</member-type>
This example says the Collection contains Atom Entry documents, and <list-template>http://example.org/{index}</list-template>
that there are two means of selecting entries using what are called </collection>
'URI Templates'; one based on the collection's order, and another <collection
based on dates. See Section 11.1 for more about URI Templates. title="Pictures"
href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" >
6.2.1 Element Definitions <member-type>media</member-type>
<list-template>http://example.org/p/{index}</list-template>
6.2.1.1 The 'app:collection' Element </collection>
</workspace>
The app:collection is the document element of a Collection Document. <workspace title="Side Bar Blog">
<collection title="Remaindered Links"
appCollection = href="http://example.org/reilly/list" >
element app:collection { <member-type>entry</member-type>
appCommonAttributes, <list-template>http://example.org/l/{index}</list-template>
( appMemberType+ </collection>
appSearchTemplate </workspace>
& anyElement* ) </service>
}
This specification defines two child elements for app:collection:
o app:member-type: any number of elements listing the types of
Entries that the Collection may contain.
o app:uri-template: any number of URI Templates for a List Resource
(See Section 11).
6.2.1.2 The 'app:member-type' Element
The app:member-type element contains information elements about the
types of Entries that the Collection may contain.
appMember =
element app:member-type {
appCommonAttributes,
appTypeValue
}
The element content of an app:member-type MUST be a string that is
non-empty, and matches either the "isegment-nz-nc" or the "IRI"
production in [RFC3987]. Note that use of a relative reference other
than a simple name is not allowed. If a name is given,
implementations MUST consider the link relation type to be equivalent
to the same name registered within the IANA Registry of Member Types
(Section 15), and thus the IRI that would be obtained by appending
the value of the rel attribute to the string
"http://www.iana.org/assignments/entrytype/".
The content of an app:member-type specifies constraints on the
Entries that may appear in the Collection. The app:collection
element MAY have multiple app:member-type elements. An Entry POSTed
to a Collection MUST meet the constraints of at least one of the app:
member-type constraints. It MAY meet more than one, but the minimum
requirement is at least one.
This specification defines two initial values for app:member-type
IANA registry:
o "entry" - The Collection is an Entry Collection as defined in
Section 9.
o "generic" - The Collection is a Generic Collection as defined in
Section 10.
6.2.1.3 The 'app:uri-template' Element
The element content of an app:uri-template is a URI Template for a
List Resource (See Section 11). Every List resource, whose URI is
determined by filling in the parameters in a URI Template, MUST
return an Atom feed document as its representation. This Atom feed
document MUST NOT contain entries which do not match the selection
criteria.
6.3 Introspection Documents
In order for authoring to commence, a client must first discover the
capabilities and locations of collections offered.
The Introspection Document describes "workspaces", which are server- This Introspection Document describes two workspaces. The first,
defined groupings of collections. There is no requirement that called 'Main Site', has two collections called 'My Blog Entries' and
servers support multiple workspaces, and a collection may appear in 'Pictures' whose IRIs are 'http://example.org/reilly/main' and
more than one workspace. '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 7.3.4.
The Introspection Document has the media-type 'application/ The second workspace is called 'Side Bar Blog' and has a single
atomserv+xml', see Section 15 collection called 'Remaindered Links' whose collection IRI is
'http://example.org/reilly/list'. 'Remaindered Links' is an Entry
collection.
Here's an example document: Introspection documents are identified with the "application/
atomserv+xml" media type (see Section 14).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?> While an introspection document allows multiple workspaces, there is
<app:service xmlns:app="http://purl.org/atom/app#"> no requirement that a service support multiple workspaces. In
<app:workspace title="Main Site" > addition, a collection MAY appear in more than one workspace.
<app:collection contents="entries"
title="My Blog Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/feed" />
<app:collection contents="generic"
title="Documents"
href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" />
</app:workspace>
<app:workspace title="Side Bar Blog">
<app:collection contents="entries" title="Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/feed" />
<app:collection contents="http://example.net/booklist"
title="Books"
href="http://example.org/reilly/books" />
</app:workspace>
</app:service>
This example says there are two workspaces, each consisting of two 7.3 Element Definitions
collections. The first workspace is called 'Mail', and has two
collections, called 'My Blog Entries' and 'Documents' whose locations
are 'http://example.org/reilly/feed' and
'http://example.org/reilly/pic'. 'My Blog Entries' contains Atom
Entries and 'Documents' contains Generic Entries. The second
workspace is called 'Side Bar Blog' and also has two collections,
called 'Entries' and 'Books' whose locations are
'http://example.org/reilly/feed' and
'http://example.org/reilly/booklist'. 'Entries' contains Atom
Entries and 'Books' contains Generic Entries (since its contents
attribute is not present you MUST assume it is a Generic Collection).
6.3.1 Element Definitions 7.3.1 The 'app:service' Element
6.3.1.1 The 'app:service' Element 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 document element of a Introspection The "app:service" element is the container for introspection
Document, acting as a container for service data associated with one information associated with one or more workspaces. An app:service
or more workspaces. An app:service elements MAY contain any number element MUST contain one or more app:workspace elements.
of app:workspace elements.
appService = appService =
element app:service { element app:service {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
( appWorkspace* ( appWorkspace+
& anyElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
6.3.1.2 The 'app:workspace' Element 7.3.2 The 'app:workspace' Element
The 'workspace' element contains information elements about the The 'app:workspace' element contains information elements about the
collections of resources available for editing. The app:workspace collections of resources available for editing. The app:workspace
elements MAY contain any number of app:collection elements. element MUST contain one or more app:collection elements.
appWorkspace = appWorkspace =
element app:workspace { element app:workspace {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text }, attribute title { text },
( appCollection* ( appCollection+
& anyElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
6.3.1.2.1 The 'title' Attribute 7.3.2.1 The 'title' Attribute
The app:workspace element MUST contain a 'title' attribute, which The app:workspace element MUST contain a 'title' attribute, which
conveys a human-readable name for the workspace. This attribute is conveys a human-readable name for the workspace. This attribute is
Language-Sensitive. Language-Sensitive.
6.3.1.3 The 'app:collection' Element 7.3.3 The 'app:collection' Element
The 'app:collection' element describes collections and their member The app:collection contains information elements that describe the
resources. location and capabilities of a collection.
appCollection = appCollection =
element app:collection { element app:collection {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text }, attribute title { text },
attribute href { text }, attribute href { text },
attribute contents { text }, ( appMemberType
anyElement* & appListTemplate
& extensionElement* )
} }
6.3.1.3.1 The 'title' Attribute 7.3.3.1 The 'title' Attribute
The app:collection element MUST contain a 'title' attribute, whose The app:collection element MUST contain a 'title' attribute, whose
value conveys a human-readable name for the workspace. This value conveys a human-readable name for the collection. This
attribute is Language-Sensitive. attribute is Language-Sensitive.
6.3.1.3.2 The 'href' Attribute 7.3.3.2 The 'href' Attribute
The app:collection element MUST contain an 'href' attribute, whose The app:collection element MUST contain an 'href' attribute, whose
value conveys the IRI of the collection. value conveys the IRI of the collection.
6.3.1.3.3 The 'contents' Attribute This specification defines two child elements for app:collection:
The app:collection element MAY contain a 'contents' attribute. The
'contents' attribute conveys the nature of a collection's member
resources. This specification defines two initial values for the
'contents' attribute:
o 'entry': A value of 'entry' for the contents attribute indicates o app:member-type: a single element that contains the type of
that the Collection is an Entry Collection (Section 9). members that the collection can contain.
o 'generic': A value of 'generic' for the contents attribute o app:list-template: a single element that contains a IRI template
indicates that the Collection is a Generic Collection of a membership list. (See Section 9).
(Section 10).
If the attribute is not present, its value MUST be considered to be 7.3.4 The 'app:member-type' Element
'generic'.
7. Introspection Resource 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.
To retrieve an Introspection Document, the client sends a GET request appMemberType =
to its URI. element app:member-type {
appCommonAttributes,
( appTypeValue )
}
GET /service-desc HTTP/1.1 appTypeValue = "entry" | "media"
Host: example.org
User-Agent: Cosimo/1.0
Accept: application/atomserv+xml
The server responds to a GET request by returning an Introspection An Entry POSTed to a collection MUST meet the constraints of the app:
Document in the message body. member-type element.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK This specification defines two initial values for the app:member-type
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:20:19 GMT IANA registry:
Server: CountBasic/2.0
Last-Modified: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:17:26 GMT
ETag: "4c083-268-423f1dc6"
Content-Length: nnnn
Content-Type: application/atomserv+xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?> o "entry" - The collection contains only member resources whose
<app:service xmlns:app="http://purl.org/atom/app#"> representation MUST be an Atom Entry. Further constraints on the
... representations of members in a collection of type "entry" are
</app:service> listed in Section 8.2.
7.1 Discovery o "media" - The collection contains member resources whose
representation can be of any media type. Additional constraints
are listed in Section 8.3.
[[anchor18: Add in desc of an HTML link element that points to the In general the value of app:member-type MUST be a string that is non-
Introspection Resource, or add it to the autodisco draft]] empty, and matches either the "isegment-nz-nc" or the "IRI"
production in [RFC3987]. Note that use of a relative reference other
than a simple name is not allowed. If a name is given,
implementations MUST consider the link relation type to be equivalent
to the same name registered within the IANA Registry of Link
Relations Section 14, and thus the IRI that would be obtained by
appending the value of the rel attribute to the string
"http://www.iana.org/assignments/member-type/".
8. Collection Resources 7.3.5 The 'app:list-template' Element
An Atom Collection is a set of related resources. All members of a The app:collection element MUST contain one 'app:list-template'
collection have an "app:updated" property, and the Collection is elements. The element content of app:list-template is an IRI
considered to be ordered by this property. template (Section 9) for a collection.
This specification defines two HTTP methods for use with collection appListTemplate =
resources: GET and POST. element app:list-template {
appCommonAttributes,
( appUriTemplate )
}
8.1 GET appUriTemplate = xsd:string { pattern = ".+\{.+\}.*" }
A GET to a Collection Resource returns a Collection Document, 8. Collections
outlining the Collection. Collection Documents are described in
Section 6.2.
8.2 POST 8.1 Creating resources with POST
In addition to GET, a Collection Resource also accepts POST requests. Every collection accepts POST requests to create resources - the
The client POSTs a representation of the desired resource to the client POSTs a representation of the desired resource to the IRI of
Collection Resource. Note that some collections may impose the collection. Collections MAY impose constraints on the media-
constraints on the media-types that are created in a Collection and types that are created in a collection and MAY generate a response
MAY generate a response with a status code of 415 ("Unsupported Media with a status code of 415 ("Unsupported Media Type").
Type").
In the case of a successful creation, the status code MUST be 201 The status code returned for a successful creation POST MUST be 201
("Created"). ("Created").
Every successful POST MUST return a Location: header with the URI of A successful creation POST MUST return a Location: header with the
the newly created resource. URI of the newly created resource.
Here's an example. Below, the client requests to create a resource Clients MAY POST invalid Atom for initial resource creation -
in a Collection: specifically the id and link elements MAY be omitted.
Below, the client requests to create a resource in a collection:
POST /edit HTTP/1.1 POST /edit HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org Host: example.org
User-Agent: Cosimo/1.0 User-Agent: Thingio/1.0
Accept: application/atom+xml
Content-Type: application/atom+xml Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Content-Length: 601 Content-Length: nnn
<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<atom:title>Mars Attacks!</atom:title>
<atom:summary type="html">
Why cant we all just... get along?
</atom:summary>
<atom:author>
<atom:name>The President</atom:name>
<atom:uri>http://www.example.org/blog</atom:uri>
</atom:author>
<atom:content type="html" xml:lang="en"
xml:base="http://www.example.org/blog/">
<p>
Why can't we...work out our differences?
Why can't we...work things out?
Little people...why can't we all just...get along?
</p>
</atom:content>
</atom:entry>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title>
<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. The resource is created by sending an Atom Entry as the entity body.
Assuming the server created the resource successfully, it sends back Successful creation is indicated by a 201 created response and
a 201 Created response with a Location: header that contains the IRI includes a Location: header.
of the newly created member as an Editable Resource.
HTTP/1.1 201 Created HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:17:11 GMT Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:17:11 GMT
Content-Length: 663 Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset="utf-8"
Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
8.3 Title: Header 8.1.1 Title: Header
The POST to a Collection Resource MAY contain a Title: header that The POST to a collection MAY contain a Title: header that indicates
indicates the clients suggested name for the resource. The server the client's suggested title for the resource. The server MAY ignore
MAY ignore the Title: header or modify the requested name to suit the Title: header or modify the requested title.
local conventions.
Title = "Title" ":" [text] Title = "Title" ":" [text]
9. Entry Collections 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.
9.1 Editing Entry Resources
Atom entries are edited by sending HTTP requests to an individual
entry's URI. Servers can determine the processing necessary to
interpret a request by examining the request's HTTP method and
'Content-Type' header.
Processing Client Requests
+-----------+------+--------+--------+------+ 8.2 Entry Collections
| | GET | PUT | DELETE | POST |
+-----------+------+--------+--------+------+
| No Body | Read | x | Delete | x |
| | | | | |
| Atom Body | x | Update | x | x |
+-----------+------+--------+--------+------+
9.2 Role of Atom Entry Elements During Editing 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 relation of rel="edit" that contains the IRI of the
member resource. Member representations MAY contain an app:control
element (Section 10.2).
The elements of an Atom Entry Document are either a 'Writable 8.2.1 Role of Atom Entry Elements During Editing
Element' or a 'Round Trip Element'.
Writable Element - An element of an Atom Entry whose value is The elements of an Atom Entry Document are either a client writable
editable by the client and not enforced by the server. or server controlled.
Round Trip Element - An element of an Atom Entry whose value is Client Writable - An element of an Atom Entry whose value is editable
enforced by the server and not editable by the client. by the client. Servers MAY modify the content of client writable
elements. Some reasons that a server may change client writable
content include length limits, obscenity filters or the addition of
boilerplate text.
That categorization will determine the elements' disposition during Server Controlled - An element of an Atom Entry whose value is
editing. enforced by the server and not editable by the client. Clients
SHOULD NOT change the value of server controlled elements. Servers
MUST NOT rely on clients preserving the values of server controlled
elements.
+--------------------+------------+ +--------------------+--------------------+
| Atom Entry Element | Property | | Atom Entry Element | Property |
+--------------------+------------+ +--------------------+--------------------+
| atom:author | Writable | | atom:author | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:category | Writable | | atom:category | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:content | Writable | | atom:content | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:contributor | Writable | | atom:contributor | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:id | Round Trip | | atom:id | Server Controlled |
| | | | | |
| atom:link | Writable | | atom:link | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:published | Writable | | atom:published | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:source | Writable | | atom:source | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:summary | Writable | | atom:summary | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:title | Writable | | atom:title | Client Writable |
| | | | | |
| atom:updated | Round Trip | | atom:updated | Server Controlled |
+--------------------+------------+ | | |
| app:control | Client Writable |
Table 2 +--------------------+--------------------+
10. Generic Collections
Generic Collections are Collections that do not have uniform
restrictions on the representations of the member resources.
10.1 Editing Generic Resources
Member resources are edited by sending HTTP requests to an individual
resource's URI. Servers can determine the processing necessary to
interpret a request by examining the request's HTTP method and
'Content-Type' header.
Processing Client Requests
+----------+------+--------+--------+------+ Table 1
| | GET | PUT | DELETE | POST |
+----------+------+--------+--------+------+
| No Body | Read | x | Delete | x |
| | | | | |
| Any Body | x | Update | x | x |
+----------+------+--------+--------+------+
When a List resource returns an Atom Feed enumerating the contents of 8.3 Media Collections
a Generic Collection, all the Entries MUST have an atom:content
element with a 'src' attribute.
10.2 Title: Header Media Collections are collections whose member representations are
not constrained. They are identified by having an app:member-type of
"media".
The POST to a Generic Collection Resource MAY contain a Title: header 8.3.1 Editing Media Resources
that indicates the clients suggested title for the resource. The
server MAY ignore the Title: header or modify the requested title to
suit local conventions.
Title = "Title" ":" [text] 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.
11. List Resources 9. Listing Collections
List resources are resources which are identified by URI templates Collections, as identified in an Introspection Document, are
indicating selection criteria. They can be used where clients resources that MUST provide representations in the form of Atom Feed
require fine control over the range or size of a server's response. documents. The entries in the returned Feed MUST be ordered by their
A list resource MUST return an Atom feed document as its 'atom:updated' property, with the most recently updated entries
representation. The entries in the returned document MUST be ordered coming first in the document order. Every entry in the Feed Document
by their 'atom:updated' property, with the most recently updated MUST have an atom:link element with a relation of "edit" (See
entries coming first in the document order. Clients MUST NOT assume Section 10.1). Clients MUST NOT assume that an Atom Entry returned
that the entry returned in the feed is a full representation of a in the Feed is a full representation of a member resource. The value
member resource. If the entry is an Editable Resource then the of atom:updated is only changed when the change to a member resource
client should perform a GET on the member resource before editing. 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.
note: in this section some URIs carry across onto the next line; this Collections can contain extremely large numbers of resources. A
is indicated by a '\' naive client such as a web spider or web browser would be overwhelmed
if the response to a GET contained every entry in the feed, and the
server would waste large amounts of bandwidth and processing time on
clients unable to handle the response.
11.1 URI Templates For this reason, Introspection documents refer to collections not
with IRIs but with IRI Templates, contained in the "app:member-type"
child of "app:collection". An IRI Template is a string containing
the embedded token "{index}".
URI Templates are a mechanism for declaring criteria against a list To produce an IRI that can be used to retrieve part or all of the
resource. By itself a URI Template is not a valid URI. Instead collection, software replaces the "{index}" with a pair of positive
there are multiple parameters embedded in the URI and distinguished integer indices separated by a dash character. An IRI template MUST,
by closing braces which can be populated and used as selection after such substitution has been performed, constitute a
criteria. The value of each app:uri-template element in a Collection syntactically valid IRI.
document is a URI Template.
Each URI template has one or more parameters that MUST be substituted One or other index MAY be omitted, in which case the range is
with values to construct a valid URI. The substitution MUST ensure understood as stretching to 0 or infinity. The index values are 0
that the resulting value is also properly percent-encoded utf-8. based and select members from the collection based on the member's
index, with all of the members ordered by their 'atom:updated'
property. The response to the selection request MUST be an Atom Feed
where all the entries fall within the requested criteria. The
request range is considered a closed set - if an entry matches one
end of the range exactly it MUST be included in the response. If no
members fall in the requested range, the server MUST respond with an
Atom Feed containing no entries. If a membership list is returned
with a number of entries that is less than the number of entries
requested than the client MAY assume that it has made a request that
exceeds the last index of the members.
Here are some examples of template URIs and corresponding populated For example, suppose the client is supplied this IRI template:
values:
http://example.org/blog/edit/{index} http://example.org/blog/edit/{index}
http://example.org/blog/edit/3-9 If the client wants the first 15 entries in the collection it would
substitute the brace-delimited parameter {index}, with the value
http://example.org/blog/edit/{index}/foo 0-14, giving:
http://example.org/blog/edit/0-100/foo
http://example.org/blog/edit/{daterange}
http://example.org/blog/edit/daterange=\
2003-12-13T18:30:02Z-2003-12-13T18:30:02Z
http://example.org/blog/edit?dr={daterange}/bar/
http://example.org/blog/edit?dr=\
2003-12-13T18:30:02Z,2003-12-13T18:30:02Z/bar/
Note that the parameters MAY appear at any place in the URI template.
11.2 URI Template Parameters
This specification defines two parameters for use in URI Templates:
o index: allows selection into a collection's resources based as
though ordered by their 'atom:updated' property.
o daterange: allows selection into a collection's resources based on http://example.org/blog/edit/0-14
their 'atom:updated' property
In both cases, the response to the selection request MUST be an Atom 10. Atom Entry Extensions
Feed where all the entries fall within the requested criteria. The
request range is considered a closed set - if an entry matches one
end of the range exactly it MUST be included in the response. If no
members fall in the requested range, the server MUST respond with an
Atom Feed containing no entries.
A Collection Document MUST contain at least two app:uri-template This specification adds one new value to the Registry of Link
elements - one for the {index} parameter template and the other for Relations and also adds a new element to Atom Entries called "app:
the {daterange} parameter template. The two parameters are not control" for controlling publishing. These new links and app:
mutually exclusive and MAY appear together in a single Template URI. control elements MAY appear in both membership lists and in member
representations.
11.2.1 \{index\} URI template variable 10.1 The 'edit' Link Relation
The value of the {index} criterion MUST be a pair of non-negative This specification adds the value "edit" to the Registry of Link
integer indices separated by a dash character. One or other index Relations. The value of "edit" signifies that the IRI in the value
MAY omitted, in which case the range is understood as stretching to of the href attribute is the IRI of the member resource, and is
zero, or infinity. intended to be used to update and delete resources as described in
this specification.
index-specifier = [index] "-" [index] 10.2 Publishing Control
For example, suppose the client is supplied this {index} URI This specification also adds a new element to Atom Entries for
template: controlling publishing.
http://example.org/blog/edit/{index} pubControl =
element app:control {
atomCommonAttributes,
pubDraft?
& extensionElement
}
If the client wants the first 15 entries in the Collection it would pubDraft =
substitute the brace-delimited parameter {index}, with the value element app:draft { "yes" | "no" }
1-15, giving:
http://example.org/blog/edit/1-15 The "app:control" element MAY appear as a child of an "atom:entry"
which is being created or updated via the Atom Publishing Protocol.
The "app:control" element, if it does appear in an entry, MUST only
appear at most one time.
11.2.2 \{daterange\} URI template variable The "app:control" element and its children elements MAY be included
in Atom Feed or Entry Documents. The "app:control" element is
considered "foreign markup" as defined in Section 6 of the Atom
Syndication Format.
A URI Template with the variable 'daterange' allows querying for Atom The "app:control" element MAY contain exactly one app:draft element
Entries in a Collection according to their 'atom:updated' property. and MAY contain zero or more extension elements as outlined in the
Atom Syndication Format, Section 6. Both clients and servers MUST
ignore foreign markup present in the app:control element that they do
not know.
The value of the {daterange} criterion should be a pair of ISO 10.2.1 The app:draft Element
formatted dates separated by a dash character; either index may be
optionally omitted, in which case the range is understood as
stretching to infinity on that end.
daterange-specifier = [iso-date] "," [iso-date] This specification defines only one child element for "app:control",
"app:draft".
The [iso-date] terminal MUST conform to the "date-time" production in The number of "app:draft" elements in "app:control" MUST be zero or
[RFC3339]. In addition, an uppercase "T" character MUST be used to one. Its content MUST be one of the values "yes" or "no". A value
separate date and time, and an uppercase "Z" character MUST be of "no" means that the entry MAY be made publicly visible. If the
present in the absence of a numeric time zone offset. "app:draft" element is missing then the value is understood to be
"no". That is, if "app:control" and/or the "app:draft" elements are
missing from an entry then the entry is considered not a draft and
can be made publicly visible. Clients MUST understand "app:draft"
elements and MUST NOT drop them from Atom Entries during editing.
Clients MUST NOT operate on the expectation that a server will honor
the value of an "app:draft" element. Servers MAY ignore "app:draft"
elements and drop them from Atom Entries.
For example, suppose the client is supplied this {daterange} URI 11. Example
Template:
http://example.org/blog/edit/{daterange} 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:
If the client wants the entries in the collection between January and http://example.net/blog/edit/
February 2006 it would substitute the brace-delimited parameter
{daterange} with the desired selection value, giving this URI:
http://example.org/blog/edit/2006-01-01T00:00:00Z,\ The IRI of the media collection is:
2006-02-01T00:00:00Z
11.2.3 Other URI Template parameters http://example.net/binary/edit
Other specifications MAY define new parameters for use in URI First the client creates a new image resource by POSTing the image to
templates and declared in the app:uri-template element. the IRI of the media collection.
12. Atom Entry Extensions 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
This specification adds three new values to the Registry of Link ...binary data...
Relations.
The value of 'collection' signifies that the IRI in the value of the The member resource is created and an HTTP status code of 201 is
href is the Collection that this Entry belongs to. Any entry MAY returned.
contain a link with a relation of 'collection'.
The value of 'edit' signifies that the IRI in the value of the href HTTP/1.1 201 Created
attribute identifies the resource that is used to edit the entry. Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:17:11 GMT
That is, it is the URI of the Entry as an Editable Resource. Content-Length: nnnn
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Location: http://example.net/binary/edit/b/129.png
The value of 'srcedit' signifies that the IRI in the value of the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
href attribute identifies the resource that is used to edit the <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
resource pointed to by the 'src' attribute of the atom:content <title>A picture of the beach.</title>
element. That is, it is the IRI of the atom:content@src as an <link rel="edit"
Editable Resource. If a link element with a relation of "srcedit" is href="http://example.net/binary/edit/b/129.png"/>
not given, then it's value defaults to the "src" attribute of the <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-568596895695</id>
content element. List Resources for Generic Collections MUST return <updated>2005-09-02T10:30:00Z</updated>
entries that have 'srcedit' links or MUST have a atom:content@src <summary>Waves</summary>
value. <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:
If the "srcedit" link is present, and it's value is an empty string, POST /blog/edit/ HTTP/1.1
then there is no URI that can be treated in the way such a value Host: example.net
would be treated. User-Agent: Thingio/1.0
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Content-Length: nnnn
Clients SHOULD use the "srcedit" value to manipulate the resource <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
within the context of the APP itself. Clients SHOULD prefer the <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
"atom:content@src" value in any other context. For example, if the <title>What I did on my summer vacation</title>
resource is an image, a client may replace the image data using a PUT <updated>2005-09-02T10:30:00Z</updated>
on the "srcedit" value, and may even display a preview of the image <summary>Beach!</summary>
by fetching the "srcedit" URI. But when creating a public, read-only <content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en">
reference to the same image resource, the client should use the <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
"atom:content@src" value. <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>
13. Securing the Atom Protocol 12. Securing the Atom Protocol
All instances of publishing Atom entries SHOULD be protected by All instances of publishing Atom entries SHOULD be protected by
authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources. authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources.
Atom servers and clients MUST support one of the following Atom servers and clients MUST support one of the following
authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both. authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both.
o HTTP Digest Authentication [RFC2617] o HTTP Digest Authentication [RFC2617]
o [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication ref] o [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication ref]
Atom servers and clients MAY support encryption of the Atom session Atom servers and clients MAY support encryption of the session using
using TLS [RFC2246]. TLS (see [RFC2246]).
There are cases where an authentication mechanism may not be There are cases where an authentication mechanism is not be required,
required, such as a publicly editable Wiki, or when using the PostURI such as a publicly editable Wiki, or when using POST to send comments
to post comments to a site that does not require authentication to to a site that does not require authentication from a commenter.
create comments.
13.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] 12.1 [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication]
This authentication method is included as part of the protocol to This authentication method is included as part of the protocol to
allow Atom servers and clients that cannot use HTTP Digest allow Atom servers and clients that cannot use HTTP Digest
Authentication but where the user can both insert its own HTTP Authentication but where the user can both insert its own HTTP
headers and create a CGI program to authenticate entries to the headers and create a CGI program to authenticate entries to the
server. This scenario is common in environments where the user server. This scenario is common in environments where the user
cannot control what services the server employs, but the user can cannot control what services the server employs, but the user can
write their own HTTP services. write their own HTTP services.
14. Security Considerations 13. Security Considerations
Because Atom is a publishing protocol, it is important that only
authorized users can create and edit entries.
The security of Atom is based on HTTP Digest Authentication and/or The security of Atom is based on HTTP Digest Authentication and/or
[@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication]. Any weaknesses in either of these [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication]. Any weaknesses in either of these
authentication schemes will affect the security of the Atom authentication schemes will affect the security of the Atom
Publishing Protocol. Publishing Protocol.
Both HTTP Digest Authentication and [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] are Both HTTP Digest Authentication and [@@TBD@@ CGI Authentication] are
susceptible to dictionary-based attacks on the shared secret. If the susceptible to dictionary-based attacks on the shared secret. If the
shared secret is a password (instead of a random string with shared secret is a password (instead of a random string with
sufficient entropy), an attacker can determine the secret by sufficient entropy), an attacker can determine the secret by
exhaustively comparing the authenticating string with hashed results exhaustively comparing the authenticating string with hashed results
of the public string and dictionary entries. of the public string and dictionary entries.
See RFC 2617 for more detailed description of the security properties See [RFC2617] for the description of the security properties of HTTP
of HTTP Digest Authentication. Digest Authentication.
@@TBD@@ Talk here about using HTTP basic and digest authentication. @@TBD@@ Talk here about using HTTP basic and digest authentication.
@@TBD@@ Talk here about denial of service attacks using large XML @@TBD@@ Talk here about denial of service attacks using large XML
files, or the billion laughs DTD attack. files, or the billion laughs DTD attack.
15. IANA Considerations 14. IANA Considerations
A Atom Collection Document, when serialized as XML 1.0, can be
identified with the following media type:
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: atomcoll+xml
Mandatory parameters: None.
Optional parameters:
"charset": This parameter has identical semantics to the charset
parameter of the "application/xml" media type as specified in
[RFC3023].
Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as
described in [RFC3023], section 3.2.
Security considerations: As defined in this specification.
[[anchor31: update upon publication]]
In addition, as this media type uses the "+xml" convention, it
shares the same security considerations as described in [RFC3023],
section 10.
Interoperability considerations: There are no known interoperability
issues.
Published specification: This specification. [[anchor32: update upon
publication]]
Applications that use this media type: No known applications
currently use this media type.
Additional information:
Magic number(s): As specified for "application/xml" in [RFC3023],
section 3.2.
File extension: .atomcoll
Fragment identifiers: As specified for "application/xml" in
[RFC3023], section 5.
Base URI: As specified in [RFC3023], section 6.
Macintosh File Type code: TEXT
Person and email address to contact for further information: Joe
Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>
Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller: IESG
An Atom Introspection Document, when serialized as XML 1.0, can be An Atom Introspection Document, when serialized as XML 1.0, can be
identified with the following media type: identified with the following media type:
MIME media type name: application MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: atomserv+xml MIME subtype name: atomserv+xml
Mandatory parameters: None. Mandatory parameters: None.
Optional parameters: Optional parameters:
"charset": This parameter has identical semantics to the charset "charset": This parameter has identical semantics to the charset
parameter of the "application/xml" media type as specified in parameter of the "application/xml" media type as specified in
[RFC3023]. [RFC3023].
Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as
described in [RFC3023], section 3.2. described in [RFC3023], section 3.2.
Security considerations: As defined in this specification. Security considerations: As defined in this specification.
[[anchor33: update upon publication]] [[anchor22: update upon publication]]
In addition, as this media type uses the "+xml" convention, it In addition, as this media type uses the "+xml" convention, it
shares the same security considerations as described in [RFC3023], shares the same security considerations as described in [RFC3023],
section 10. section 10.
Interoperability considerations: There are no known interoperability Interoperability considerations: There are no known interoperability
issues. issues.
Published specification: This specification. [[anchor34: update upon Published specification: This specification. [[anchor23: update upon
publication]] publication]]
Applications that use this media type: No known applications Applications that use this media type: No known applications
currently use this media type. currently use this media type.
Additional information: Additional information:
Magic number(s): As specified for "application/xml" in [RFC3023], Magic number(s): As specified for "application/xml" in [RFC3023],
section 3.2. section 3.2.
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Base URI: As specified in [RFC3023], section 6. Base URI: As specified in [RFC3023], section 6.
Macintosh File Type code: TEXT Macintosh File Type code: TEXT
Person and email address to contact for further information: Joe Person and email address to contact for further information: Joe
Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org> Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>
Intended usage: COMMON Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller: This specification's author(s). [[anchor35: Author/Change controller: This specification's author(s). [[anchor24:
update upon publication]] update upon publication]]
16. References 15. References
16.1 Normative References 15.1 Normative References
[AtomFormat] [AtomFormat]
Nottingham, M. and R. Sayre, "The Atom Syndication Nottingham, M. and R. Sayre, "The Atom Syndication
Format", 1.0, July 2005. Format", 1.0, July 2005.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0", [RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, January 1999. RFC 2246, January 1999.
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Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999. Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S., [RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S.,
Leach, P., Luotonen, A., and L. Stewart, "HTTP Leach, P., Luotonen, A., and L. Stewart, "HTTP
Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication", Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication",
RFC 2617, June 1999. RFC 2617, June 1999.
[RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media [RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media
Types", RFC 3023, January 2001. Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
[RFC3339] Klyne, G. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the Internet:
Timestamps", RFC 3339, July 2002.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform [RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66, Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
RFC 3986, January 2005. RFC 3986, January 2005.
[RFC3987] Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource [RFC3987] Duerst, M. and M. Suignard, "Internationalized Resource
Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005. Identifiers (IRIs)", RFC 3987, January 2005.
[W3C.REC-xml-20040204] [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]
Yergeau, F., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Bray, T., Yergeau, F., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C., Bray, T.,
and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third and E. Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third
Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004. Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February 2004.
[W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114]
Hollander, D., Bray, T., and A. Layman, "Namespaces in Hollander, D., Bray, T., and A. Layman, "Namespaces in
XML", W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January 1999. XML", W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January 1999.
16.2 Informative References [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]
Marsh, J., "XML Base", W3C REC W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627,
June 2001.
15.2 Informative References
[RNC] Clark, J., "RELAX NG Compact Syntax", December 2001. [RNC] Clark, J., "RELAX NG Compact Syntax", December 2001.
[W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215]
Walsh, N. and I. Jacobs, "Architecture of the World Wide Walsh, N. and I. Jacobs, "Architecture of the World Wide
Web, Volume One", W3C REC REC-webarch-20041215, Web, Volume One", W3C REC REC-webarch-20041215,
December 2004. December 2004.
URIs URIs
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Dublin, Dublin D14 Dublin, Dublin D14
IE IE
Phone: +353-1-4927444 Phone: +353-1-4927444
Email: bill.dehora@propylon.com Email: bill.dehora@propylon.com
URI: http://www.propylon.com/ URI: http://www.propylon.com/
Appendix A. Contributors Appendix A. Contributors
The content and concepts within are a product of the Atom community The content and concepts within are a product of the Atom community
and the Atompub Working Group. Robert Sayre was an editor for drafts and the Atompub Working Group.
00-04.
Appendix B. Revision History Appendix B. RELAX NG Compact Schema
This appendix is informative.
The Relax NG schema explicitly excludes elements in the APP namespace
which are not defined in this revision of the specification.
Requirements for APP Processors encountering such markup are given in
Section 6.2 and Section 6.3 of [AtomFormat].
# -*- 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
Appendix C. Revision History
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: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-05 - Added: Contributors section. Added:
de hOra to editors. Fixed: typos. Added diagrams and description to de hOra to editors. Fixed: typos. Added diagrams and description to
model section. Incorporates PaceAppDocuments, PaceAppDocuments2, model section. Incorporates PaceAppDocuments, PaceAppDocuments2,
PaceSimplifyCollections2 (large-sized chunks of it anyhow: the PaceSimplifyCollections2 (large-sized chunks of it anyhow: the
notions of Entry and Generic resources, the section 4 language on 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 Protocol Model, 4.1 through 4.5.2, the notion of a Collection
document, as in Section 5 through 5.3, Section 7 "Collection document, as in Section 5 through 5.3, Section 7 "Collection
resources", Selection resources (modified from pace which talked resources", Selection resources (modified from pace which talked
about search); results in major mods to Collection Documents, Section about search); results in major mods to Collection Documents, Section
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Rev 07 - 06Aug2003 - Removed the use of the RSD file for auto- Rev 07 - 06Aug2003 - Removed the use of the RSD file for auto-
discovery. Changed copyright until a final standards body is chosen. discovery. Changed copyright until a final standards body is chosen.
Changed query parameters for the search facet to all begin with atom- 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 to avoid name collisions. Updated all the Entries to follow the 0.2
version. Changed the format of the search results and template file version. Changed the format of the search results and template file
to a pure element based syntax. to a pure element based syntax.
Rev 06 - 24Jul2003 - Moved to PUT for updating Entries. Changed all Rev 06 - 24Jul2003 - Moved to PUT for updating Entries. Changed all
the mime-types to application/x.atom+xml. Added template editing. the mime-types to application/x.atom+xml. Added template editing.
Changed 'edit-entry' to 'create-entry' in the Introspection file to Changed 'edit-entry' to 'create-entry' in the Introspection file to
more accurately reflect it's purpose. more accurately reflect its purpose.
Rev 05 - 17Jul2003 - Renamed everything Echo into Atom. Added Rev 05 - 17Jul2003 - Renamed everything Echo into Atom. Added
version numbers in the Revision history. Changed all the mime-types version numbers in the Revision history. Changed all the mime-types
to application/atom+xml. to application/atom+xml.
Rev 04 - 15Jul2003 - Updated the RSD version used from 0.7 to 1.0. 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 Change the method of deleting an Entry from POSTing <delete/> to
using the HTTP DELETE verb. Also changed the query interface to GET using the HTTP DELETE verb. Also changed the query interface to GET
instead of POST. Moved Introspection Discovery to be up under instead of POST. Moved Introspection Discovery to be up under
Introspection. Introduced the term 'facet' for the services listed Introspection. Introduced the term 'facet' for the services listed
in the Introspection file. in the Introspection file.
Rev 03 - 10Jul2003 - Added a link to the Wiki near the front of the 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 document. Added a section on finding an Entry. Retrieving an Entry
now broken out into it's own section. Changed the HTTP status code now broken out into its own section. Changed the HTTP status code
for a successful editing of an Entry to 205. for a successful editing of an Entry to 205.
Rev 02 - 7Jul2003 - Entries are no longer returned from POSTs, Rev 02 - 7Jul2003 - Entries are no longer returned from POSTs,
instead they are retrieved via GET. Cleaned up figure titles, as instead they are retrieved via GET. Cleaned up figure titles, as
they are rendered poorly in HTML. All content-types have been they are rendered poorly in HTML. All content-types have been
changed to application/atom+xml. changed to application/atom+xml.
Rev 01 - 5Jul2003 - Renamed from EchoAPI.html to follow the more Rev 01 - 5Jul2003 - Renamed from EchoAPI.html to follow the more
commonly used format: draft-gregorio-NN.html. Renamed all references commonly used format: draft-gregorio-NN.html. Renamed all references
to URL to URI. Broke out introspection into it's own section. Added to URL to URI. Broke out introspection into its own section. Added
the Revision History section. Added more to the warning that the the Revision History section. Added more to the warning that the
example URIs are not normative. example URIs are not normative.
Intellectual Property Statement Intellectual Property Statement
The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to
pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
this document or the extent to which any license under such rights this document or the extent to which any license under such rights
might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has
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