Re: [syndication] Re: Finding Feeds

[burton@relativity.yi.org]

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"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:

> > 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.

Yes.  ... and I agree it would be cool. :)

> 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?

The hierarchy would provide this to.  So you were visiting the URL of say:

http://cnn.com/us/index.html

you could fetch /us/index.xcs (if there was one).  If one was found this would
list all syndicated feeds under /us.  If not you could fetch /index.rss which
would be for the whole site.

> 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.

Again this isn't decentralized.  One of the things Reptile nodes should do is
provide XC caches for each node so that you can perform this type of lookup
based on reputation.

Of course this really requires JXTA integration which is still being worked on.

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

XML document.  I am thinking that the format would be similar to XCS.  There was
some discusion about this in the past but I have yet to follow up :(

Kevin

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