Bill Kearney <wkearney@syndic8.com> wrote:
Many, many sites do not currentlyoutput a proper MIME type for their existing RSS and XML data. Often they serveit up as text/plain or text/xml.
Um, both of those and especially the second are valid aren't they? The problem is that the types we need to define are a layer above this. eg type(MIME)=text/xml and then type(content)=RSS 2.0
Looking at the html4 spec, there's a mechanism to define new rel=link-types. So we could say rel="meta" or rel="metaindex" as long as that is defined in a <head profile="URI">. The problem here is mime-types. We've been playing fast and loose with mime types for years but it still hasn't got us to application/xml+rss_2.0
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