Re: site-wide metadata discovery

Julian Bond <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.syndication.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bill Kearney <[email protected]> wrote:
>Site-Index:    http://somesite.example.com/feedindex.xml
>http://purl.org/ocs/directory/0.5/

I woke up thinking "put the pointer in robots.txt" and discovered
someone had beaten me to it. Damn!

Interestingly, robots.txt is valid if trivial YAML[1]. So I wonder what
would happen if you added lines like

Site-Index: default
  href: http://somesite.example.com/feedindex.xml
  type: http://purl.org/ocs/directory/0.5/
  title: My Feed List

I suspect that existing readers of robots.txt would treat this as one
long line with continuation. A YAML parser would extract all the data.

[1]YAML Ain't Markup Language http://www.yaml.org

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