* Sylvain Hellegouarch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-13 13:00]:
> Now I wonder say I have a feed. Each entry has a link element which 
> should indicate the URI of the resource. That resource being a feed 
> itself not an entry.
> 
> In that case should I use self or alternate?

`alternate`.

The purpose of `self` is to embed the URI of the feed inside the
feed, so that an aggregator knows what URI to subscribe to, even
if all it has to go by is the feed document, but not a URI.
That’s all it’s for.

> The term "equivalent" being fairly unclear in this context IMO.

Yes, the wording in the RFC is unfortunate.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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