Re: [syndication] Orange buttons (was: Re: What to call the RSS file)

[Julian Bond <julian@netmarketseurope.com>]

In article <9g7u14+pihc@eGroups.com>, Bill Kearney
<wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes
>Indeed, but if you're not reading them with a news reader; a browser 
>for example, this does nothing to aid in redirecting the file into a 
>program capable of handling it.  

Maybe I'm missing something here. But IMHO .xml is exactly right. This
tells the file reader to start reading text and to expect it to be well
formed xml. xml then has quite enough standards to be able to work out
what to do next based on the contents of the second and subsequent
lines.

I asked the same questions a while ago when I was dumb and ill-informed
;-) But now I think the XML orange button works precisely because it
doesn't say anything about the exact XML protocol of the underlying
file.

But from the POV of a webmaster evangelizing your syndication xml file,
I wish sites would put *something*, in fact *anything* somewhere on
their website to say it's there. In my research of Slash and Slash clone
sites, I lost count of the number of times there was nothing. Not on the
home page, FAQ, help, about etc etc.    

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