Re: What to call the RSS file

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

--- In syndication@y..., Aaron Swartz <aswartz@s...> wrote:
> Ben Parker <ben@a...> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a convention or a Good Way to name the RRS file? It 
seems there are
> > every kind out there, including backend.php, rss.xml, xml.rss 
foo.txt etc
> > etc. I suppose it doesn't matter, but just in case it does...
> 
> It doesn't really matter, although I tend to prefer rss.xml for 
0.91 and
> rss.rdf for 1.0.

Technically, it does matter.  Some systems might expect to use that 
file extension as a means to determine how to deal with the file.  
Yes, in an ideal world an .XML suffixed file should be understood by 
the UI as something to be 'parsed' in order to determine the correct 
way to handle it.  Unfortunately we don't yet have that situation.  
While it's true that most feeds aren't going to be handled by the 
filesystem UI, that's no reason not to make them capable of it.

Is there a web accessible database of 'well known' file extensions? 
Let's not pick something already taken by someone with an axe to 
grind...

-Bill Kearney