Re: locating syndication feeds

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 12:11  AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Please find attached a draft of a proposal. Thoughts?

The first major problem is that you use namespaces to identify 
formats. While this may be OK for some formats, I'm not sure 
that it's a general solution -- you really need agreement from 
the owner of the namespace. You're probably better off using it 
as a usual property, and saying that the URI points to a 
description/definition of the format, for example:

...
	<item ...>
		<title>...
		<description>...
		<foo:format rdf:resource="..." />
	</item>
...


> This indicates that the resource that links to it is available 
> in two other formats; RSS 0.92 and RSS 1.0.

Umm, I don't see it linking to any resources. And it should!

> Channel lists must be returned with the following Content-Type:
>
> Content-Type: text/xml+syndicationlist

You better register that.

> The first form is with a LINK tag in the HEAD section of HTML;
> ...
> The second form uses a traditional A link, with the HREF 
> pointing to the channel list URI.

Both should use the type="text/xml+syndicationlist" attribute... 
In fact, that makes the HEAD version optional. You may also want 
to decide on a REL attribute to use.

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