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Re: locating syndication feeds



On Friday, July 6, 2001, at 08:54  AM, Morbus Iff wrote:

It should be syndication format-agnostic
How future forward and boringly backward should this be? Technically, any
format could be syndicated - csv, pipe, and so on and so forth.

Use a URI, that makes things easy.

* It should support discovery by both people who are browsing the
 site (the 'find the feed for this page' scenario) and automated
 processes (the 'syndication spider' and 'browser automatic feed
 location' scenarios)

Good idea. Hmm. I wonder - has anyone ever tried to search for xml.gif via a search engine? If it could be formated in a way that the engines would
pick it up (perhaps a more unique filename, alt tag formatting, or
whatever, that'd be nifty too.

Doesn't seem to work too well on Google.

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