Re: [syndication] RSSify your web page

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <20010903101219.A12906@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham
<mnot@mnot.net> writes
>Before this approach explodes too much, it seemed like the RSSify
>engine was *only* basing items on a <span class="rss:item"> tag, and
>using heuristics to discover the rest.
>
>If we're expecting a publisher to mark up their page, why not give
>them better control over what becomes the title, the link, etc.,
>rather than playing guesswork?
>
>I thought that Aaron's original engine, and the W3C version [1] did
>this...
>[1] http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/

Correct. But if the webmaster/author has got enough savvy to modify
their CMS engine (or plain html) to add all the tags to make it look
almost like RSS, why don't they just generate an rss file? The beauty of
this approach is it's application to blogger. With a 30 sec change to
your blogger template, I can read your blog as rss. Now if blogger.com
produced rss itself we wouldn't have to jump through all these hoops. 

I'm absolutely not trying to suggest that this technique should be
widely used on sites that have enough control to produce their own rss.  

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