Re: [syndication] RSS Referencing

[Phillip Pearson <phil@myelin.co.nz>]

The most sensible way of doing things, IMHO, is to put the link to the
blog post inside the <guid> field, and to replicate it in the <link>
field if the post doesn't have anything better to link to.

(So in your case, when you're writing posts that reference the NYT
etc, your own post's link goes in <guid> and the NYT's link goes in
<link>.  If you write a post with no link, both <guid> and <link> will
then point to the post.)

This is how Radio Userland and a bunch of other tools do it.


On the 'consumer' side, it's easy to see what's going on.  The spec
says that text inside <guid> (with no isPermalink attribute, or with
isPermalink="true") is the post's permalink.  The text inside <link>
is defined more vaguely - it's just a link that has something to do
with the post.  Aggregators generally make the title of the post link
to what's inside the <link> tag, and put a smaller link somewhere that
points to what's inside <guid>.

Cheers,
Phil

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:04:34PM -0000, Stephen Downes wrote:
> 
> RSS Referencing
> Stephen Downes
> July 27, 2005