RE: [syndication] What to call the RSS file

[dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil]

>I wouldn't name it with ".rss" because "RSS" may be named something 
>different in the future, and if you ever decide to change your format to 
>something else, then again, ".rss" assumes something based on the filename 
>alone.

For some reason, I can't seem to get ".rss" files to display in IE 5.5 at
all -- if I try, the browser loads the resource but never actually changes
the display, so you just wind up staring at whatever page you were
originally at.

I love this preview capability, because it lets me see the raw feed in nice
tree form, and also verifies immediately the feed is well-formed. Great for
my debugging purposes.

I've also noticed that if you try to load a local XML file into the browser
for viewing like that, it will only work if it has a ".xml" extension. This
doesn't necessarily apply to remote resources, where presumably the MIME
type is set to "text/xml".

>I'd call it something like "headlines.xml" or "syndication.xml".

The closest I could come to pointing out a standard is "sitename.rss" or
"sitename.rdf". I don't like the ".rss" for Morbus' reasons above.

Manila sites use scriptingNews format, at
http://sitename/xml/scriptingNews2.xml -- so at least on those sites there's
a standard, enforced by the CMS. But that's not RSS, for reasons specified
in the ManilaNewbies site... :(

-dave