Re: Finding Feeds

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>]

> But this is not the point.  The point is that this would work in a 
a distributed
> environment.  It would be nice to find feeds base on the site 
similar to
> robots.txt.

Now this is an interesting idea.  Are you saying that when viewing a 
web page that's also available 'somewhere' in syndicated format that 
you want your browser to pick up on that and tell you?  Now, THAT 
would be slick.  It would really 'complete the circuit' from fed 
items to their website and back again.

Or are you saying that the 'base' URL for a given site should have 
something that helps the browser understand that a feed is available 
for 'some' portion of the site content?

They're pretty different goals.  Either of which would be a very good 
thing to have in a standard format. 

Cross-referencing the 'base URL' for a site against it's feed could 
be done with the Syndic8 list.  Querying against it with the base URL 
could return a feed.  I say could because the code isn't present 
(yet) but the data exists.

This leads to the question of what should the query return?  The URL 
as a string or an XML document; and in what format?

-Bill Kearney