Re: [syndication] XSL stylesheet for RSS (all versions)

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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

> > Okay - thanks for explaining. Has there been a registered MIME type for RSS?
> > I thought I saw some mail on that a while ago...
> 
> No.  It's bogged down in committee it seems.

I think that the current status is that the rss-dev team is going to submit RSS
1.0 as a W3C Note which should allow the registration of the application/rss+xml
media type. (though I admit to not fully understand W3C politics)

> > Also, who is the 'them' that you speak of? Is it mainly dynamically
> > generated RSS? If static stuff is a problem, maybe going to Apache and
> > adding a file extension mapping for RSS into the mimetypes config may help.
> 
> Trouble is extension mapping presumes a consistently used extension.  There
> isn't a consistent extension used.  They range from .php, .xml, .rdf, .rss,
> many more and even some without an extension at all.  Depending on file
> extensions is not going to work for most, if not all, feeds.

And RDF really doesn't mean anything.

I would be +1 on application/rss+xml for .rss files though.

> To make matters worse, most Apache sites delivering up feeds aren't going to
> be terribly interested in making additions to support per-directory or
> per-file configuration changes.  And getting users to construct proper
> .htaccess files is perhaps even less likely.

The addition is made in the Apache mime.types file.  On debian this is in a
mime.types file.  I would assume that if we get the type registered it would
make it into this file.
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Kevin

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