Re: [syndication] Re: [RSS-DEV] RE: Automatic discovery of RSS

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

I think this is one of those questions where the answer depends on who you
talk to. :)

The "Internet" way of doing it would be to use media types (aka MIME
types). This would identify each format/language with a media type, like
application/rss+xml. The problem with this is that one isn't yet
registered for RSS, and the process for registering new types that aren't
in a vendor-specific namespace is lengthy. (as an aside, I wonder of one
of the namespace cooperatives like xmlns or purl would consider being the
root of a vnd tree for media types, so that community formats like RSS1.0
could avoid the pain).

The "HTML" way of doing it is to use a new rel="...", as you've done. The
problem is that there's no way to manage that namespace, and this
mechanism doesn't seem to have caught on very well for extensions.

The "Web" way of doing it is with a URI, but I haven't seen a way to
identify a link format in a <LINK>. Or am I missing it?

The most practical and probably the most correct way to do this is with a
media type, especially in light of the TAG's recent findings. Now, if
RSS-DEV would *AHEM* go ahead and submit it as a note, we'll be set.

Cheers,



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Croome" <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
To: <rss-dev@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Dan Kohn" <dan@dankohn.com>; "Gary Lawrence Murphy"
<garym@canada.com>; "fork" <fork@xent.com>; <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:51 AM
Subject: [syndication] Re: [RSS-DEV] RE: Automatic discovery of RSS


> Hi
>
> On Sat 01-Jun-2002 at 03:14:53PM -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> It was also discussed on www-rdf-interest:
>
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2002Jan/0074.html
>
> Personally I have been doing this for a while:
>
>   <link
>     rel="syndication"
>     href="rss100headline.rdf"
>     type="application/xml"
>     hreflang="en-gb" />
>
>   <link
>     rel="alternate syndication"
>     href="rss090headline.rdf"
>     type="application/xml"
>     hreflang="en-gb" />
>
> Chris
>
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