Re: shared feed lists
Jeremy Zawodny <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.syndication.discuss |
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| Message-ID | <20031014185305.GA1606@thermal> |
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:26:18PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote: > > 2) Having a spec that says <link> in the <head> of the html returned by > the root of a directory is more flexible than > thisStandardFileName.extension in the root of a directory. Certainly. > But we're stuffing a lot of these into <head> now. Which one is the > subscriptions list? We'd have to define the right attributes. > So now we have to allocate a rel= value to this specific need. It's > enough to make you think there should be another layer of > indirection here; have every web page include a single <link > rel="metadata" href=""> which points to a file with a list of > metadata files each of which can contain one or more bits and types > of metadata. I know "every problem in computing can be solved with > another layer of indirection", but this is getting a bit daft isn't > it? Yes. And I'm starting to think we may need that soon, it's going to be long time before we can expect it to happen. It's a much larger change in my mind. > 4) I don't much like OPML for this because using attributes instead of > sub-tags looks messy to me (There, I've said it). But then I'm not a big > fan of OCS either. On the surface this is a pretty simple requirement > and I'm not sure why I should need a full RDF parser to extract the > names and URLs of the feeds. Yeah. I seems that OPML isn't quite "big" or "strict" enough while OCS is likely overkill for this need. > 5) I don't see how we can get away with saying only RSS feeds should > appear in this list. I don't think we should. > Apart from identifying the different types of RSS, you can pretty > much guarantee that someone will want to include atom feeds (or > whatever its called now). I can see a need for listing off OCS feeds > as well. I can feel this heading into the conclusion of 2) above. > this here list file could be a general purpose Metadata pointer > file. The format should allow any feed type to be identified, assuming the feed has a URL which identifies it. > My unconsidered opinion is that a way of listing RSS feeds in a machine > readable format is a good thing. So I agree with DW on this. Excellent. > And putting a <link href> pointer to it in the <head> of the index > document in directories is a good thing. Even if there's *also* a > standard name for the file. Agreed. > But then I'll probably change my mind tomorrow or at least think of more > issues that this throws up. Well, we just need to finalized things today, then. :-) Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <Jeremy-LaWf/[email protected]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/