RE: [syndication] What to call the RSS file

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

There is a certain touchiness to the XML display feature in IE 5 and
5.5. Some files display and others don't. It is not based on the file
extension, because plenty of ".php" files display fine. There is
some subtle issue with the XML itself.

Jeff;

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil 
> [mailto:dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:04 AM
> To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [syndication] What to call the RSS file
> 
> 
> >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
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