Re: tagging for dummies?

Edgar Luna writes:
>                        Then what you _may_ need to do are two things:
> 1) If that site reads from a rss or some kind of xml you create (or
> edit) a _template_ that provides with <tags> or something that it
> understand so you advertise that certain entry has some tags and make
> that site point to that template, just like you provide your rss or
> the index of your blog.
> 2) Or you make a script that runs on top of some clases of pyblosxom
> (that eludes web stuff maybe) and get the metadata in your entries and
> send on whatever way that certain site requires that you send.

I don't have one particular site that's asking me for a specific
template format. I want to have tags that are a normal format just
like people use on livejournal, blogger, blogspot etc. so that the
search engines who index my blog already will see my tags just like
they see tags on those other blogging sites.

will writes:
> Not sure if this helps or not, but both tags and categories provide the 
> user with topic-focused views of your blog.  PyBlosxom has categories by 

[ more description of how you might use tags as more flexible categories ]

> Akkana--does that help clear things up?

Thanks, but no, it doesn't answer my question at all.

I finally gave up and went and ran "view source" on a bunch of blog
sites so I could see what format they use. It turns out that wordpress,
livejounal, blogspot and a couple of indie bloggers I checked all
use the format that was mentioned in the wikipedia article:

<a href="http://site.com/tag/$tagname" title="$title" rel="tag">$tagname</a>

except that wordpress uses rel="category tag" instead of rel="tag".
Some of them put the link inside a <li>, some inside a <div>, but
it seems like the <a ... rel="tag">$tagname</a> is the important part.

So that seems to be the answer, and I'll use that format.

	...Akkana

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