Re: locating syndication feeds

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 11:30  PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> >    <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">
>
> The only problem that I see is that it makes it impossible to use the
>   <A href="channels.xml"> syndication </a>
> form, because the response will just have a text/xml content-type,
> and we can't reasonably expect people to dispatch *all* XML to an
> aggregator.

Umm, you can put a rel attribute on an <a> tag also.

<a href="channels.xml" rel="syndication" 
type="text/xml">syndication!</a>

> and so on, on every page. Or is it reasonable to force an aggregator
> to understand all of the various flavours of RSS that might be
> dispatched to it? Hmm... perhaps so...

Yeah, probably in this day and age it's reasonable to expect an 
aggregator to understand RSS 0.9 and RSS 0.91. (1.0 is 
backwards-compatible with 0.9 so that's not an issue.) Folks 
with RSS 0.92 feeds will either have to live strictly or deal 
with the consequences.

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