Re: [syndication] friendlier feeds

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> writes:

> I've been playing with making feeds friendlier, using content
> negotiation.
> 
> For example:
>   http://www.mnot.net/bookmarks/feed
> 
> If you request it with a browser, you'll get an HTML page, telling
> you how to use RSS; if you request it with an aggregator, you'll get
> the RSS. This is because your browser sends an Accept: header
> containing 'text/html'. 
<snip/>

Ah.  Good idea.  The Accept header is a good thing.

The only problem that I can see is that no one has done a decent proposal for
mapping mime types to XML namespaces.

IE. I might want to get RSS 1.0 from you instead of RSS 0.91

Anyway.

Kevin

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