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RE: Automatic discovery of RSS
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Dan Kohn wrote:
> It should be application/rss+xml, as text/xml may very well be
> deprecated in the next version of RFC 3023.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nottingham-rss-media-type-00.t
> xt
>
> See RFC 3023 for the reasons text/xml is a bad idea (especially the
> charset and display issues). Could you please forward this to
> appropriate parties and/or lists?
Makes sense to me. cc: list inflated to include rss-dev and syndication;
any extended followup should probably migrate from fork to those lists.
cheers,
dan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Brickley [mailto:danbri@w3.org]
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 11:41
> To: Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Cc: fork
> Subject: Re: Automatic discovery of RSS
>
>
> On 1 Jun 2002, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
>
> >
> > Just in case it got missed, this use of the link tag is such an
> > obvious and wonderful idea, it's no wonder the complete re-tooling of
> > the entire blog space will probably happen in a matter of days;
> > certainly our site RDF was link-enabled within seconds of reding this:
> >
> > http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1475
> >
> > Two days ago, Matt Griffith has come up with the smart idea of
> > using the HTML link element to point to a site's RSS feed from the
> > site itself - thus allowing automatic discovery of RSS feeds.
> >
> > By adding a line like this: <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml"
> > title="XML" href="http://rss.benhammersley.com/index.rss"; /> a
> > site would be providing metadata as to the location of its feed -
> > and this would allow newsreaders, browsers and search engines to
> > automatically locate the feed.
>
> Using HTML LINK is nifty. I think this was discussed a while back on
> RSS-DEV but ran out of energy as nobody was sure which mime-type to use.
> Pick one and run with it seems a good plan. I'm not sure text/xml is
> quite
> specific enough, but this is something that shouldn't slow down
> experimental deployment. Beats having central repositories...
>
> Dan
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