Re: locating syndication feeds

["Mark Paschal" <markpasc@mindspring.com>]

Sjoerd wrote:
> And with the "title" attribute, the user can choose which format is 
> the most appropriate. (Just like the alternate stylesheets) F.e. 
> title="Compact RSS 0.91" and title="Complete RSS 0.92".

So this would be something like:

   <link rel="syndication"
         type="text/xml"
         href="rss.xml"
         title="markpasc.blog in RSS 0.92">
   <link rel="syndication"
         type="text/xml"
         href="http://ourfav.../markpasc.xml";
         title="markpasc.blog Headlines in RSS 0.92">

Apparently HTML specifies something about a metadata profile, with
respect to non-standard <link/> types:

   Authors may wish to define additional link types not
   described in this specification [1]. If they do so, they
   should use a profile [2] to cite the conventions used to
   define the link types.

That's just a "should," though, so it's not *necessary.* Personally
I've never seen a profile like that, but then I've never seen a
browser that adequately deals with <link/>s, either.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-links
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#profiles


Mark Paschal
markpasc@mindspring.com