draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-08.txt   draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-09.txt 
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The Atom Publishing Protocol The Atom Publishing Protocol
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Abstract Abstract
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 is based on for publishing and editing Web resources. The protocol is based on
HTTP transport of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is HTTP transport of Atom-formatted representations. The Atom format is
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6.1 Referring to Information Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.1 Referring to Information Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2 XML Namespace Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.2 XML Namespace Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3 Use of xml:base and xml:lang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.3 Use of xml:base and xml:lang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.4 RELAX NG Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.4 RELAX NG Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Introspection Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7. Introspection Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7.1 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.2 Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2 Element Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2.1 The "app:service" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2.1 The "app:service" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2.2 The "app:workspace" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2.2 The "app:workspace" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2.3 The "app:collection" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 7.2.3 The "app:collection" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.2.4 The "app:member-type" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.2.4 The "app:accept" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8. Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1 Creating resources with POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.1 Creating resources with POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1.1 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1.2 Title: Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 8.3 The 'edit' Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.2 Entry Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8.4 Media Resources and Media Link Entries . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.2.1 Editing entries with foreign markup . . . . . . . . . 18 8.4.1 Title: Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.3 Media Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8.4.2 Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.3.1 Editing Media Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 8.5 Editing Entries with Foreign Markup . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.3.2 Editing Media Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 9. Listing Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9. Listing Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 9.1 Collection Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
9.1 Collection Paging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 10. Atom Format Link Relation Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10. Atom Format Link Relation Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 10.1 The "edit" Link Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10.1 The "edit" Link Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 10.2 The "edit-media" Link Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
11. Atom Publishing Control Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 11. Atom Publishing Control Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11.1 The Atom Publishing Control Namespace . . . . . . . . . 23 11.1 The Atom Publishing Control Namespace . . . . . . . . . 25
11.2 The "pub:control" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 11.2 The "pub:control" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11.2.1 The "pub:draft" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 11.2.1 The "pub:draft" Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
12. Atom Publishing Protocol Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 12. Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
13. Securing the Atom Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 13. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
14. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 14. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
15. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 15. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 15.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 15.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
16.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 A. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
B. RELAX NG Compact Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 B. RELAX NG Compact Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
C. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 C. Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . 40 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]. The protocol supports the creation of [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. The protocol supports the creation of
arbitrary web resources and provides facilities for: arbitrary web resources and provides facilities for:
o Collections: Sets of resources, which may be retrieved in whole or o Collections: Sets of resources, which can be retrieved in whole or
in part. in part.
o Introspection: Discovering and describing collections. o Introspection: Discovering and describing collections.
o Editing: Creating, updating and deleting resources. o Editing: Creating, updating and deleting resources.
2. 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].
Note: The Introspection Document allows the use of IRIs [RFC3987], as 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 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 where an IRI is needed. How to map an IRI to a URI is specified in
Section 3.1 of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) Section 3.1 of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
[RFC3987]. [RFC3987].
3. Terminology 3. Terminology
For convenience, this protocol may be referred to as the "Atom For convenience, this protocol can be referred to as the "Atom
Protocol" or "APP". Protocol" or "APP".
URI/IRI - A Uniform Resource Identifier and Internationalized URI/IRI - A Uniform Resource Identifier and Internationalized
Resource Identifier. These terms and the distinction between them Resource Identifier. These terms and the distinction between them
are defined in [RFC3986] and [RFC3987]. Note that IRIs are mapped to are defined in [RFC3986] and [RFC3987]. Note that IRIs are mapped to
URIs before dereferencing takes place. URIs before dereferencing takes place.
Resource - A network-accessible data object or service identified by Resource - A network-accessible data object or service identified by
an IRI, as defined in [RFC2616]. See [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] for an IRI, as defined in [RFC2616]. See [W3C.REC-webarch-20041215] for
further discussion on resources. further discussion on resources.
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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 query. a query.
o POST is used to create a new, dynamically-named resource. o POST is used to create a new, dynamically-named resource.
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.
Along with operations on resources, the Atom Protocol provides list- Along with operations on resources the Atom Protocol provides
based structures, called Collections, for managing and organising structures, called Collections, for managing and organising
resources, called Members. Collections contain the IRIs of, and resources, called Members. Collections contain the IRIs of, and
metadata about, their Member resources. For authoring and editing of metadata about, their Member resources. Atom Protocol clients can
resources to commence, an Atom Protocol client can examine use Introspection documents, which represent server-defined groups of
Introspection Documents which represent server-defined groups of Collections, to initialize the process of creating and editing
Collections. resources.
Note that when an IRI is used for resource retrieval over HTTP, the Note that when an IRI is used for resource retrieval over HTTP, the
IRI is first converted to a URI according the procedure defined in IRI is first converted to a URI according the procedure defined in
[RFC3987] section 3.1. The resource that the IRI locates is the same [RFC3987] section 3.1. The resource that the IRI locates is the same
as the one located by the URI obtained after converting the IRI. as the one located by the URI obtained after converting the IRI.
5. Protocol Operations 5. Protocol Operations
5.1 Retrieving an Introspection Document 5.1 Retrieving an Introspection Document
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1. The client POSTs a representation of the Member to the URI of the 1. The client POSTs a representation of the Member to the URI of the
collection. collection.
2. If the Member resource was created successfully, the server 2. If the Member resource was created successfully, the server
responds with a status code of 201 and a Location: header that responds with a status code of 201 and a Location: header that
contains the URI of the newly created resource. contains the URI of the newly created resource.
5.3 Editing a Resource 5.3 Editing a Resource
Once a resource has been created and its URI is known, that URI may Once a resource has been created and its URI is known, that URI can
be used to retrieve, update, and delete the resource. be used to retrieve, update, and delete the resource.
5.3.1 Retrieving a Resource 5.3.1 Retrieving a Resource
Client Server Client Server
| | | |
| 1.) GET to Member URI | | 1.) GET to Member URI |
|------------------------------------------>| |------------------------------------------>|
| | | |
| 2.) Member Representation | | 2.) Member Representation |
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2. The server responds with an Atom Feed Document containing the 2. The server responds with an Atom Feed Document containing the
IRIs of the collection members. IRIs of the collection members.
5.5 Use of HTTP Response codes 5.5 Use of HTTP Response codes
The Atom Protocol uses the response status codes defined in HTTP to The Atom Protocol uses the response status codes defined in HTTP to
indicate the success or failure of an operation. Consult the HTTP indicate the success or failure of an operation. Consult the HTTP
specification [RFC2616] for detailed definitions of each status code. specification [RFC2616] for detailed definitions of each status code.
It is RECOMMENDED that entities contained within HTTP 4xx and 5xx It is RECOMMENDED that entities contained within HTTP 4xx and 5xx
responses include an explanation of the error using natural language. responses include a human-readable explanation of the error.
6. XML-related Conventions 6. XML-related Conventions
The Atom Protocol Introspection format is specified in terms of the The Atom Protocol Introspection format is specified in terms of the
XML Information Set [W3C.REC-xml-infoset-20040204], serialised as XML XML Information Set [W3C.REC-xml-infoset-20040204], serialised as XML
1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. Atom Publishing Protocol Documents MUST 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204]. Atom Publishing Protocol Documents MUST
be well-formed XML. This specification does not define any DTDs for 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 Atom Protocol, and hence does not require them to be "valid" in the
sense used by XML. sense used by XML.
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6.2 XML Namespace Usage 6.2 XML Namespace Usage
The namespace name [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] for the XML format The namespace name [W3C.REC-xml-names-19990114] for the XML format
described in this specification is: described in this specification is:
http://purl.org/atom/app# http://purl.org/atom/app#
This specification uses the prefix "app:" for the namespace name. This specification uses the prefix "app:" for the namespace name.
The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically significant. The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically significant.
The "app:" namespace is reserved for future forward-compatible
revisions of the Atom Publishing Protocol. Future versions of this
specification could add new elements and attributes to the markup
vocabulary. Software written to conform to this version of the
specification will not be able to process such markup correctly and,
in fact, will not be able to distinguish it from markup error. For
the purposes of this discussion, unrecognized markup from the Atom
Publishing Protocol vocabulary will be considered "foreign markup".
This specification also uses the prefix "atom:" for This specification also uses the prefix "atom:" for
"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", the namespace name of the Atom "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", the namespace name of the Atom
Publishing Format [RFC4287]. Syndication Format [RFC4287].
6.3 Use of xml:base and xml:lang 6.3 Use of xml:base and xml:lang
XML elements defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base XML elements defined by this specification MAY have an xml:base
attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]. When xml:base is used, it attribute [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]. When xml:base is used, it
serves the function described in section 5.1.1 of URI Generic Syntax serves the function described in section 5.1.1 of URI Generic Syntax
[RFC3986], establishing the base URI (or IRI) for resolving any [RFC3986], establishing the base URI (or IRI) for resolving any
relative references found within the effective scope of the xml:base relative references found within the effective scope of the xml:base
attribute. attribute.
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6.4 RELAX NG Schema 6.4 RELAX NG Schema
Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of Some sections of this specification are illustrated with fragments of
a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RNC]. A complete schema a non-normative RELAX NG Compact schema [RNC]. A complete schema
appears in Appendix B. However, the text of this specification appears in Appendix B. However, the text of this specification
provides the definition of conformance. provides the definition of conformance.
7. Introspection Documents 7. Introspection Documents
For authoring to commence, a client needs to first discover the For authoring to commence, a client needs to first discover the
capabilities and locations of collections offered. This is done capabilities and locations of the available collections.
using Introspection Documents. An Introspection Document describes Introspection documents are designed to support this discovery
workspaces, which are server-defined groupings of collections. process. An Introspection Document describes workspaces, which are
server-defined groupings of collections.
Introspection documents are identified with the "application/ Introspection documents are identified with the "application/
atomserv+xml" media type (see Section 15). atomserv+xml" media type (see Section 14).
While an introspection document allows multiple workspaces, there is While an introspection document allows multiple workspaces, there is
no requirement that a service support multiple workspaces. In no requirement that a server support multiple workspaces. In
addition, a collection MAY appear in more than one workspace. addition, a collection MAY appear in more than one workspace.
7.1 Example 7.1 Example
<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?> <?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<service xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/app#"> <service xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/app#">
<workspace title="Main Site" > <workspace title="Main Site" >
<collection <collection
title="My Blog Entries" title="My Blog Entries"
href="http://example.org/reilly/main" > href="http://example.org/reilly/main" />
<member-type>entry</member-type>
</collection>
<collection <collection
title="Pictures" title="Pictures"
href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" > href="http://example.org/reilly/pic" >
<member-type>media</member-type> <accept>image/*</accept>
</collection> </collection>
</workspace> </workspace>
<workspace title="Side Bar Blog"> <workspace title="Side Bar Blog">
<collection title="Remaindered Links" <collection title="Remaindered Links"
href="http://example.org/reilly/list" > href="http://example.org/reilly/list" />
<member-type>entry</member-type>
</collection>
</workspace> </workspace>
</service> </service>
This Introspection Document describes two workspaces. The first, This Introspection Document describes two workspaces. The first,
called "Main Site", has two collections called "My Blog Entries" and called "Main Site", has two collections called "My Blog Entries" and
"Pictures" whose URIs are "http://example.org/reilly/main" and "Pictures" whose IRIs are "http://example.org/reilly/main" and
"http://example.org/reilly/pic" respectively. "My Blog Entries" is "http://example.org/reilly/pic" respectively. The "Pictures"
an Entry collection and "Pictures" is a Media collection. Entry and includes an accept element indicating that client can post image
Media collections are discussed in Section 7.2.4. files to the collection to create new entries. Entries with
associated media resources are discussed in section 8.3.
The second workspace is called "Side Bar Blog" and has a single The second workspace is called "Side Bar Blog" and has a single
collection called "Remaindered Links" whose collection URI is collection called "Remaindered Links" whose collection IRI is
"http://example.org/reilly/list". "Remaindered Links" is an Entry "http://example.org/reilly/list".
collection.
7.2 Element Definitions 7.2 Element Definitions
7.2.1 The "app:service" Element 7.2.1 The "app:service" Element
The root of an introspection document is the "app:service" element. The root of an introspection document is the "app:service" element.
The "app:service" element is the container for introspection The "app:service" element is the container for introspection
information associated with one or more workspaces. An app:service information associated with one or more workspaces. An app:service
element MUST contain one or more app:workspace elements. element MUST contain one or more app:workspace elements.
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element app:service { element app:service {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
( appWorkspace+ ( appWorkspace+
& extensionElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
7.2.2 The "app:workspace" Element 7.2.2 The "app:workspace" Element
The "app: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
element MUST contain one or more app:collection elements. element MAY contain zero or more app:collection elements.
appWorkspace = appWorkspace =
element app:workspace { element app:workspace {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text }, attribute title { text },
( appCollection+ ( appCollection+
& extensionElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
In an app:workspace element, the first app:collection element of each In an app:workspace element, the first app:collection element MUST
type MUST refer to the preferred or primary collection. In the refer to the preferred or primary collection. In the following
following example, the "Entries" collection would be considered the example, the "Entries" collection would be considered the preferred
preferred (or primary) entries collection of the workspace and the collection:
"Photos" collection would be considered the primary media collection:
<service> <service xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/app#">
<workspace title="My Blog"> <workspace title="My Blog">
<collection title="Entries" <collection title="Entries"
href="http://example.org/myblog/entries"> href="http://example.org/myblog/entries" />
<member-type>entry</member-type>
</collection>
<collection title="Photos" <collection title="Photos"
href="http://example.org/myblog/fotes"> href="http://example.org/myblog/fotes">
<member-type>media</member-type> <accept>image/*</accept>
</collection> </collection>
</workspace> </workspace>
</service> </service>
7.2.2.1 The "title" Attribute 7.2.2.1 The "title" Attribute
The app:workspace element MUST contain a "title" attribute, which The app:workspace element MUST contain a "title" attribute, which
gives a human-readable name for the workspace. This attribute is gives a human-readable name for the workspace. This attribute is
Language-Sensitive. Language-Sensitive.
7.2.3 The "app:collection" Element 7.2.3 The "app:collection" Element
The "app:collection" describes an Atom Protocol collection. One The "app:collection" describes an Atom Protocol collection. One
child element is defined here for app:collection: "app:member-type". child element is defined here for app:collection: "app:accept".
appCollection = appCollection =
element app:collection { element app:collection {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text }, attribute title { text },
attribute href { text }, attribute href { atomUri },
( appMemberType ( appAccept?
& appListTemplate
& extensionElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
In an Atom feed, the app:collection element MAY appear as a child of
an atom:feed or atom:source element to identify the collection to
which new entries can be added to the feed.
7.2.3.1 The "title" Attribute 7.2.3.1 The "title" Attribute
The app:collection element MUST contain a "title" attribute, whose The app:collection element MUST contain a "title" attribute, whose
value gives a human-readable name for the collection. This attribute value gives a human-readable name for the collection. This attribute
is Language-Sensitive. is Language-Sensitive.
7.2.3.2 The "href" Attribute 7.2.3.2 The "href" Attribute
The app:collection element MUST contain a "href" attribute, whose The app:collection element MUST contain a "href" attribute, whose
value gives the IRI of the collection. value gives the IRI of the collection.
7.2.4 The "app:member-type" Element 7.2.4 The "app:accept" Element
The app:collection element MUST contain one "app:member-type" The app:collection element MAY contain one "app:accept" element. The
element. The app:member-type element value specifies the types of app:accept element value specifies a comma-separated list of media-
members that can appear in the collection. ranges [RFC2616] identifying the types of representations that can be
POSTed to the Collection's URI. Whitespace separating the media-
range values is considered insignificant and MUST be ignored.
appMemberType = The app:accept element is similar to the HTTP Accept request-header
element app:member-type { [RFC2616] with the exception that app:accept has no notion of
appCommonAttributes, preference. Accordingly, the value syntax of app:accept does not use
( appTypeValue ) accept-params or "q" parameters as specified in [RFC2616], section
} 14.1. The order of media-ranges is not significant. The following
lists are all equivalent:
appTypeValue = "entry" | "media" <app:accept>image/png, image/*</app:accept>
<app:accept>image/*, image/png</app:accept>
<app:accept>image/*</app:accept>
This specification defines two values for the app:member-type A value of "entry" indicates that Atom Entry Documents can be posted
element: to the Collection. If the accept element is omitted, or empty,
clients SHOULD assume that only Atom Entry documents will be accepted
by the collection.
o "entry" - Indicates the collection contains only member resources appAccept =
whose representation MUST be an Atom Entry. Further constraints element app:accept {
on the representations of members in a collection of type "entry" appCommonAttributes,
are listed in Section 8.2. ( appTypeValue? )
}
o "media" - Indicates the collection contains member resources whose appTypeValue = ( "entry" | media-type |entry-or-media-type )
representation can be of any media type. Additional constraints media-type = xsd:string { pattern = "entry,(.+/.+,?)*" }
are listed in Section 8.3. entry-or-media-type = xsd:string { pattern = "(.+/.+,?)*" }
8. Collections 8. Collections
8.1 Creating resources with POST 8.1 Creating resources with POST
To add members to a collection, clients send POST requests to the To add members to a collection, clients send POST requests to the
collection's URI. Collections MAY impose constraints on the media- collection's URI. Collections MAY impose constraints on the media-
types that are created in a collection and MAY generate a response types of request entities POSTed to the collection and MAY generate a
with a status code of 415 ("Unsupported Media Type"). On successful response with a status code of 415 ("Unsupported Media Type").
creation, the response to the POST request MUST return a Location:
header with the URI of the newly created resource.
8.1.1 Example If an entry was created in the collection which received the POST,
its URI MUST be returned in an HTTP Location header.
When the server generates a response with a status code of 201
("Created"), it SHOULD also return a response body, which, if
provided, MUST be an Atom Entry Document representing the newly-
created resource. Clients MUST NOT assume that an Atom Entry
returned is a full representation of the member resource.
Since the server is free to alter the posted entry, for example by
changing the content of the "id" element. returning the entry as
described in the previous paragraph can be useful to the client,
enabling it to correlate the client and server views of the new
entry.
When the POST request contains an Atom Entry Document, the response
from the server SHOULD contain a Content-Location header that
contains the same character-by-character value as the Location
header.
Clients MUST NOT assume that the URI provided by the Location header
can be used to edit the created entry.
The request body of the POST need not be an Atom entry. For example,
it might be a picture, or a movie. For a discussion of the issues in
posting such content, see Section 8.4.
8.2 Example
Below, the client sends a POST request containing an Atom Entry Below, the client sends a POST request containing an Atom Entry
representation to the URI of the Collection: representation to the URI of the Collection:
POST /myblog/entries HTTP/1.1 POST /myblog/entries HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org Host: example.org
User-Agent: Thingio/1.0 User-Agent: Thingio/1.0
Content-Type: application/atom+xml Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Content-Length: nnn Content-Length: nnn
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title> <title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id> <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated> <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<author><name>John Doe</name></author>
<content>Some text.</content> <content>Some text.</content>
</entry> </entry>
The server signals a successful creation with a status code of 201 The server signals a successful creation with a status code of 201.
and the response includes a 'Location' header indicating the URI of The response includes a "Location" header indicating the URI of the
the Atom Entry. Atom Entry and a representation of that Entry in the body of the
response.
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: 0 Content- Length: nnn
Content- Type: application/atom+xml; charset="utf-8"
Content- Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
8.1.2 Title: Header <?xml version="1.0"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title>Atom-Powered Robots Run Amok</title>
<id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
<updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
<author><name>John Doe</name></author>
<content>Some text.</content>
<link rel="edit"
href="http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom"/>
</entry>
A POST to a Media Collection creating a resource SHOULD contain a Note that the Entry created by the server might not match exactly the
Title: header that indicates the client's suggested title for the Entry POSTed by the client. In particular, a server MAY change the
resource: values of various elements in the Entry such as the atom:id, atom:
updated and atom:author values and MAY choose to remove or add other
elements and attributes, or change element and attribute values.
In particular, the publishing system in this example filled in some
values not provided in the original POST. For example, presumably it
ascertained the author's name via the authentication protocol used to
establish the right to post.
8.3 The 'edit' Link
Each member Entry within a collection SHOULD contain an atom:link
element with a link relation of "edit" that contains the IRI used to
retrieve, update or delete the member Entry.
8.4 Media Resources and Media Link Entries
As discussed above, if the body of a client's POST is an Atom Entry
document, this constitutes a request that the server create a new
entry in the collection to which the POST is addressed and return its
URI.
If the body of the client's POST is of a media type other than
application/atom+xml, this constitutes a request that the server
create a new resource as represented by the body of the post, called
a "media resource", and also an entry in the collection to which the
POST was addressed, called a "media link entry", and return both
URIs. If the server successfully creates a media resource and media
link entry pair, the Location header included in the response MUST be
that of the media link entry. The media link entry MUST have a
"content" element with a "src" attribute which links to the media
resource.
The intent is that the media link entry be used to store metadata
about the (perhaps non-textual) media resource, so that the media and
the metadata can be retrieved and updated separately.
A media link entry SHOULD contain an atom:link element with a link
relation of "edit-media" that contains the IRI used to modify the
media resource. Deletion of a media link entry SHOULD result in the
deletion of the linked media resource.
Implementors will note that per the requirements of [RFC4287], media
link entries MUST contain an atom:summary element. Upon successful
creation of a media link entry, a server MAY choose to populate the
atom:summary element (as well as other required elements such as
atom:id, atom:author and atom:title) with content derived from the
POSTed media resource or from any other source. A server might not
allow a client to modify the server selected values for these
elements.
Note that this specification covers the cases when the POST body is
an Atom Entry, and when it is of a non-Atom media type. It does not
specify any request semantics or server behavior in the case where
the POST media-type is application/atom+xml but the body is something
other than an Atom Entry.
8.4.1 Title: Header
A POST whose body is not of the Atom media type and which thus
requests the creation of a media resource SHOULD contain a Title:
header indicating the client's suggested title for the resource. For
example:
POST /myblog/fotes HTTP/1.1 POST /myblog/fotes HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org Host: example.org
User-Agent: Thingio/1.0
Content-Type: image/png Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: nnnn Content-Length: nnnn
Title: An Atom-Powered Robot Title: An Atom-Powered Robot
...binary data... ...binary data...
The server MAY ignore the content of the Title: header or modify the The server MAY use the content of the Title: header, as provided or
suggested title. in a modified form, in constructing a title for the resource, which
would presumably appear in the media link entry.
Title = "Title" ":" [TEXT] Title = "Title" ":" [TEXT]
The syntax of this header MUST conform to the augmented BNF grammar The syntax of this header MUST conform to the augmented BNF grammar
in section 2.1 of the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616]. The [TEXT] in section 2.1 of the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616]. The [TEXT]
rule is described in section 2.2 of the same document. Words of rule is described in section 2.2 of the same document. Words of
*TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than
[ISO88591] [ISO-8859-1] only when encoded according to the rules of [ISO88591] only when encoded according to the rules of [RFC2047].
[RFC2047] [RFC2047].
8.2 Entry Collections
Entry Collections are collections that restrict their membership to 8.4.2 Example
Atom Entries. They are identified by having an app:member-type of
"entry". Every member representation MAY contain an atom:link
element with a link relation of "edit" that contains the IRI of the
member resource. Member representations MAY contain a pub:control
element (Section 11).
8.2.1 Editing entries with foreign markup Below, the client sends a POST request containing a PNG image to the
URI of the Collection:
To avoid unintentional loss of data when editing entry collection POST /myblog/entries HTTP/1.1
members, Atom Protocol clients SHOULD preserve all metadata, Host: example.org
including unknown foreign markup, that has not been intentionally Content- Type: image/png
modified. Content- Length: nnn
Title: A picture of the beach
8.3 Media Collections ...binary data...
Media Collections are collections whose member representations are The server signals a successful creation with a status code of 201.
not constrained. They are identified by having an app:member-type of The response includes a "Location" header indicating the URI of the
"media". media link entry and a representation of that entry in the body of
the response. The media link entry includes a content element with a
src attribute referencing the media resource, and a link using the
link relation "edit-media" specifying the IRI to be used for
modifying the media resource.
8.3.1 Editing Media Resources HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:17:11 GMT
Content- Length: nnn
Content- Type: application/atom+xml; charset="utf-8"
Content- Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
Location: http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom
When listing the contents of a Media Collection, every Entry in the <?xml version="1.0"?>
Atom Feed Document MUST have an atom:content element with a "src" <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
attribute containing the IRI of the media resource itself. This <title>A picture of the beach</title>
value may be used to update and delete resources as described in <id>urn:uuid:1225c695-cfb8-4ebb-aaaa-80da344efa6a</id>
Section 5.3. When creating a public, read-only reference to the <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
member resource, a client SHOULD use this value. <author><name>John Doe</name></author>
<summary type="text" />
<content type="image/png"
src="http://example.org/media/img123.png"/>
<link rel="edit"
href="http://example.org/edit/first-post.atom" />
<link rel="edit-media"
href="http://example.org/edit/img123.png" />
</entry>
8.3.2 Editing Media Metadata 8.5 Editing Entries with Foreign Markup
Entries in a Media Collection MAY contain an atom:link element with a To avoid unintentional loss of data when editing entries or media
link relation of "edit" that contains the IRI of an Atom Entry link entries, Atom Protocol clients SHOULD preserve all metadata,
document representing the metadata of the member resource. A client including unknown foreign markup as defined in Section 6 of
MAY use this to edit the metadata associated with the resource. [RFC4287], which has not been intentionally modified.
9. Listing Collections 9. Listing Collections
Collection resources MUST provide representations in the form of Atom Collection resources MUST provide representations in the form of Atom
Feed documents. Each entry in the Feed Document MUST have an atom: Feed documents whose entries represent the collection's members.
link element with a relation of "edit" (See Section 10.1). Each entry in the Feed Document SHOULD have an atom:link element with
a relation of "edit" (See Section 10.1).
The entries in the returned Atom Feed MUST be ordered by their "atom: The entries in the returned Atom Feed MUST be ordered by their "atom:
updated" property, with the most recently updated entries coming updated" property, with the most recently updated entries coming
first in the document order. Clients SHOULD be constructed in first in the document order. Clients SHOULD be constructed in
consideration that changes which do not alter the entry's atom: consideration of the fact that changes which do not alter the entry's
updated value will not affect the position of the entry in a atom:updated value will not affect the position of the entry in a
collection. collection.
Clients MUST NOT assume that an Atom Entry returned in the Feed is a Clients MUST NOT assume that an Atom Entry returned in the Feed is a
full representation of a member resource and SHOULD perform a GET on full representation of a member resource and SHOULD perform a GET on
the member resource before editing. the member resource before editing.
Collections can contain large numbers of resources. A naive client Collections can contain large numbers of resources. A naive client
such as a web spider or web browser could be overwhelmed if the 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 response to a GET contained every entry in the collection, and the
server would waste large amounts of bandwidth and processing time on server would waste large amounts of bandwidth and processing time on
clients unable to handle the response. For this reason, servers MAY clients unable to handle the response. For this reason, servers MAY
return a partial listing containing the most recently updated member return a partial listing containing the most recently updated member
resources. Such partial feed documents MUST have an atom:link with a resources. Such partial feed documents MUST have an atom:link with a
"next" relation whose "href" value is the URI of the next partial "next" relation whose "href" value is the URI of the next partial
listing of the collection (the least recently updated member listing of the collection (the least recently updated member
resources) where it exists. This is called "collection paging". resources) where it exists. This is called "collection paging".
9.1 Collection Paging 9.1 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 The returned Atom feed MAY NOT contain entries for all the
collection's members. Instead, the Atom feed document MAY contain collection's members. Instead, the Atom feed document MAY contain
link elements with "rel" attribute values of "next", "previous", link elements with "rel" attribute values of "next", "previous",
"first" and "last" that can be used to navigate through the complete "first" and "last" that can be used to navigate through the complete
set of matching entries. set of matching entries.
For instance, suppose a client is supplied the URI For instance, suppose a client is supplied the URI
"http://example.org/entries/go" of a collection of member entries, "http://example.org/entries/go" of a collection of member entries,
where the server as a matter of policy avoids generating feed where the server as a matter of policy avoids generating feed
documents containing more than 10 entries. The Atom feed document documents containing more than 10 entries. The Atom feed document
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href="http://example.org/entries/10" /> href="http://example.org/entries/10" />
... ...
</feed> </feed>
10. Atom Format Link Relation Extensions 10. Atom Format Link Relation Extensions
10.1 The "edit" Link Relation 10.1 The "edit" Link Relation
The Atom Protocol adds the value "edit" to the Atom Registry of Link The Atom Protocol adds the value "edit" to the Atom Registry of Link
Relations (see section 7.1 of [RFC4287]). The value of "edit" 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 specifies that the value of the href attribute is the IRI of an
of an editable Atom Entry Document associated with a resource. In a editable Atom Entry Document. When appearing within an atom:entry,
Media Collection this IRI may be used to update the metadata the href IRI MAY be used to update and delete the resource
associated with a Media Resource. In an Entry Collection this IRI represented by that entry. An atom:entry MUST contain no more than
may be used to update and delete the member resource itself. The one "edit" link relation.
link relation MAY appear in Atom Entry representations as well as
Entry and Media Collections. 10.2 The "edit-media" Link Relation
The Atom Protocol adds the value "edit-media" to the Atom Registry of
Link Relations (see section 7.1 of [RFC4287]). When appearing within
an atom:entry, the value of the href attribute is an IRI that MAY be
used to modify a media resource associated with that entry.
An atom:entry MAY contain zero or more "edit-media" link relations.
An atom:entry MUST NOT contain more than one atom:link element with a
rel attribute value of "edit-media" that has the same type and
hreflang attribute values. All "edit-media" link relations in the
same entry reference the same resource. If a client encounters
multiple "edit-media" link relations in an entry then it SHOULD
choose a link based on the client preferences for type and hreflang.
If a client encounters multiple "edit-media" link relations in an
entry and has no preference based on the type and hreflang attributes
then the client SHOULD pick the first "edit-media" link relation in
document order.
11. Atom Publishing Control Extensions 11. Atom Publishing Control Extensions
11.1 The Atom Publishing Control Namespace 11.1 The Atom Publishing Control Namespace
This specification defines an Atom Format extension for publishing This specification defines an Atom Format extension for publishing
control called Atom Publishing Control. The namespace name for the control called Atom Publishing Control. The namespace name for the
Atom Publishing Control's XML vocabulary is Atom Publishing Control's XML vocabulary is
"http://example.net/appns/". This specification uses "pub:" for the "http://example.net/appns/". This specification uses "pub:" for the
namespace prefix. The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically namespace prefix. The choice of namespace prefix is not semantically
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as defined here, and MAY contain zero or more extension elements as as defined here, and MAY contain zero or more extension elements as
outlined in Section 6 of [RFC4287]. Both clients and servers MUST outlined in Section 6 of [RFC4287]. Both clients and servers MUST
ignore foreign markup present in the pub:control element. ignore foreign markup present in the pub:control element.
11.2.1 The "pub:draft" Element 11.2.1 The "pub:draft" Element
The number of "pub:draft" elements in "pub:control" MUST be zero or 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 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" that the entry MAY be made publicly visible. If the "pub:draft"
element is missing then the value MUST be understood to be "no". The element is missing then the value MUST be understood to be "no". The
pub:draft element MAY be ignored. inclusion of the pub:draft element represents a request by the client
to control the visibility of an entry and the pub:draft element MAY
12. Atom Publishing Protocol Example be ignored by the server.
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 URI
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>
13. Securing the Atom Protocol 12. Securing the Atom Protocol
All instances of publishing Atom Format entries SHOULD be protected All instances of publishing Atom Format entries SHOULD be protected
by authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources. by authentication to prevent posting or editing by unknown sources.
Atom Protocol servers and clients MUST support one of the following [[anchor22: note: this section is currently under discussion.]]
authentication mechanisms, and SHOULD support both.
o HTTP Digest Authentication [RFC2617]
o CGI Authentication
Atom Protocol servers and clients MAY support encryption of the
session using TLS (see [RFC2246]).
There are cases where an authentication mechanism might 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.
13.1 CGI Authentication
[[anchor27: note: 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.
14. Security Considerations
The security of the Atom Protocol is based on HTTP Digest
Authentication and/or CGI Authentication [[anchor29: note: 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 [[anchor30:
note: 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 13. Security Considerations
Digest Authentication.
[[anchor31: expand on HTTP basic and digest authentication, or The security of the Atom Protocol is based on [[anchor24: note:
refer.]] refers to incomplete section]].
[[anchor32: note: talk here about denial of service attacks using [[anchor25: note: talk here about denial of service attacks using
large XML files, or the billion laughs DTD attack.]] large XML files, or the billion laughs DTD attack.]]
15. IANA Considerations 14. IANA Considerations
An Atom Publishing Protocol Introspection Document, when serialized An Atom Publishing Protocol Introspection Document, when serialized
as XML 1.0, can be identified with the following media type: as XML 1.0, can be 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]] [[anchor26: 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. [[anchor27: 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). [[anchor28:
update upon publication]] update upon publication]]
16. References 15. References
16.1 Normative References 15.1 Normative References
[ISO88591] [ISO88591]
ISO, "International Standard -- Information Processing -- ISO, "International Standard -- Information Processing --
8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets -- Part 1: 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets -- Part 1:
Latin alphabet No. 1,", January 1987. Latin alphabet No. 1,", January 1987.
[RFC2047] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) [RFC2047] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text",
RFC 2047, November 1996. RFC 2047, November 1996.
[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",
RFC 2246, January 1999.
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., [RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
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.,
Leach, P., 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 [RFC3023] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media
Types", RFC 3023, January 2001. Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
[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.
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February 2004. 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.
[W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627] [W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627]
Marsh, J., "XML Base", W3C REC W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627, Marsh, J., "XML Base", W3C REC W3C.REC-xmlbase-20010627,
June 2001. June 2001.
16.2 Informative References 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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& extensionElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
# app:collection # app:collection
appCollection = appCollection =
element app:collection { element app:collection {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
attribute title { text }, attribute title { text },
attribute href { atomUri }, attribute href { atomUri },
( appMemberType ( appAccept?
& extensionElement* ) & extensionElement* )
} }
# app:member # app:member
appMemberType = appAccept =
element app:member-type { element app:accept {
appCommonAttributes, appCommonAttributes,
( appTypeValue ) ( appTypeValue? )
} }
appTypeValue = "entry" | "media" appTypeValue = ( "entry" | media-type |entry-or-media-type )
media-type = xsd:string { pattern = "entry,(.+/.+,?)*" }
entry-or-media-type = xsd:string { pattern = "(.+/.+,?)*" }
# above is an approximation, rnc doesn't support interleaved text
# Simple Extension # Simple Extension
simpleExtensionElement = simpleExtensionElement =
element * - app:* { element * - app:* {
text text
} }
# Structured Extension # Structured Extension
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element * { element * {
(attribute * { text } (attribute * { text }
| text | text
| anyElement)* | anyElement)*
} }
# EOF # EOF
Appendix C. Revision History Appendix C. Revision History
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-09: PaceWorkspaceMayHaveCollections,
PaceMediaEntries5,
http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05322.html, and
http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg05272.html
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-08: added infoset ref; added wording re draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-08: added infoset ref; added wording re
IRI/URI; fixed URI/IRI ; next/previous fixed as per Atom IRI/URI; fixed URI/IRI ; next/previous fixed as per Atom
LinkRelations Attribute LinkRelations Attribute
(http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg04095.html); (http://www.imc.org/atom-protocol/mail-archive/msg04095.html);
incorporated: PaceEditLinkMustToMay; PaceMissingDraftHasNoMeaning, incorporated: PaceEditLinkMustToMay; PaceMissingDraftHasNoMeaning,
PaceRemoveMemberTypeMust, PaceRemoveMemberTypePostMust, PaceRemoveMemberTypeMust, PaceRemoveMemberTypePostMust,
PaceTitleHeaderOnlyInMediaCollections, PacePreserveForeignMarkup, PaceTitleHeaderOnlyInMediaCollections, PacePreserveForeignMarkup,
PaceClarifyTitleHeader, PaceClarifyMediaResourceLinks, PaceClarifyTitleHeader, PaceClarifyMediaResourceLinks,
PaceTwoPrimaryCollections; PaceTwoPrimaryCollections;
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