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Re: [syndication] shared feed lists

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:14:54AM -0400, Bill Kearney wrote:
> 
> Take comments from all interested parties and release guidelines?  That's fine
> idea and precisely what's being done.
> 
> Here's the spec:
> 
> For sites wanting to offer a list of RSS feeds, use of the HTML
> <head> section <link> element should be considered.

Yes.

> Examples of which can resemble:
> 
> <link rel='subscriptions' type='http://purl.org/ocs/directory/0.5/#'
> href='http://example.com/list.rdf'/>
> <link rel='subscriptions' type='text/opml' href='http://example.com/list.opml'/>
> 
> Applications would be expected to understand the use of the 'rel'
> attribute as an indicator of the link's purpose and the 'type'
> attribute as the format being used.  This to facilitate decision
> making on the suitability of the document before the data is
> downloaded.  This to avoid burdening the requester with downloading
> data in a format it doesn't understand.

No argument there.

> I'm open to discussion the specific text of the 'rel' attribute and
> the range of 'type' formats.  I'd think using a URI would be smarter
> in the long run.  But I'm open to using MIME types when none exists.
> Of course then there's also the failure to apply for a legitimate
> MIME type but that's a whole other train wreck...

I have no preference on the <link> representation.  As long as there's
a standard and sensible way to do it, that's all we need.  (I don't
claim to know how to judge what's sensible in this arena.)

Jeremy
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