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[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Mark Fletcher <markf@wingedpig.com> wrote:
>I would *strongly* suggest augmenting the
>various RSS protocols so that a feed can specify the location of this
>file.

I consider the use of rdfs:seeAlso in FOAF files to be one of the two or
three *big* ideas in FOAF. Having files in a new format point at other
files in the same format is a huge benefit to getting a new standard off
the ground. What I don't like about that particular implementation is
that it generally says nothing about the format of the file on the other
end of the url. If we had an agreed way of saying something like
<yas:seeAlso type="http://yas.ext/rsslist/";
rdf:resource="http://mydom.ext/mylist.xml"; />

and

<link format="http://yas.ext/rsslist/";
  href="http://mydom.ext/mylist.xml"; />

then we could drop these into rss, rdf, ocs, html files and all sorts of
aggregators, scutters and robots could walk round the web of files.

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