Re: Autodiscovery (was: Fawcette's feed)

[Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch@atmedia.net>]

Bill Kearney wrote:

> One thing a site can do is put a <link> tag in the head section of
> the web pages.  We do it on Syndic8.com for our feeds.  We even do it
> on the per-feed info pages, using each feed's own RSS URL.  Many
> sites do it on theirs as well (mine on ideaspace.net do it also)
>
> Here's the format:
>
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
> href="http://example.com/rssfile.xml"; >

For applications reading the autodiscovery link, the REL attribute is
case-insensitive, so rel="Alternate" and even rel="aLtErNaTe" should be
recognized as well.

IMHO the title should not be required to be RSS but should describe the feed,
for a site offering a single feed title="RSS" is acceptable, but when
presenting multiple feeds it would help if the feedreader did not present a
list of multiple items all with exactly the same title.

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Klaus Johannes Rusch
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