Re: RSS Sitemaps

--- In [email protected], "rcade" <cadenhead@...> wrote:
>
> Offering autodiscovery for RSS reading lists is a good idea. Why did you look to implement it in Google's sitemaps format rather than in OPML, the most popular format for reading lists?
>

I'd like to create a data format based on the concept of the sitemaps protocol rather than use the Google News format variation itself. I like the idea of using the robots.txt file to embed a link to a sitemap index for data exchange and given that there is some awareness of sitemaps I figured it could be a good place to start.

Using OPML for the RSS index does make sense so I agree this could be used instead of the sitemap-feeds doc but the sitemap-index doc would still be needed so that other types of data can be discovered. The namespace tag per entry in the sitemap-index doc could hint to the client what type of data is contained within the referenced index.

OPML indexes for other types of data could work, eg. to reference TV listings docs in XMLTVFormat, but maybe some types of data could use new index formats. 

The RSS reader would need a better hint from the sitemap-index doc than just the OPML namespace though if other types of data also used OPML otherwise it could download unnecessary data. 




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