Re: [syndication] Re: locating syndication feeds

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:59:22PM -0000, Mark Paschal wrote:
> 
> So this would be something like:
> 
>    <link rel="syndication"
>          type="text/xml"
>          href="rss.xml"
>          title="markpasc.blog in RSS 0.92">
>    <link rel="syndication"
>          type="text/xml"
>          href="http://ourfav.../markpasc.xml";
>          title="markpasc.blog Headlines in RSS 0.92">

The only problem that I see is that it makes it impossible to use the
  <A href="channels.xml"> syndication </a>
form, because the response will just have a text/xml content-type,
and we can't reasonably expect people to dispatch *all* XML to an
aggregator.

This would be fixed with a content-type of 
  application/xml+syndication
or
  application/xml+rss

But that still leaves the problem of multiple syndication formats;
e.g., you'd have to do something like

  <a href="feed.rss092"> syndicate in rss 0.92 </a>
  <a href="feed.rss10"> syndicate in rss 1.0 </a>

and so on, on every page. Or is it reasonable to force an aggregator
to understand all of the various flavours of RSS that might be
dispatched to it? Hmm... perhaps so...

Thoughts?


-- 
Mark Nottingham
http://www.mnot.net/