- From: Joe Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>
- Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 01:44:38 -0500
- To: "'www-tag @ w3. org'" <www-tag@w3.org>
Mark Baker wrote: > Hi, > > The various RSS formats all seem(*) to include a link child element of > channel, whose value is a URI of the weblog. That's not the URI that is > needed, I know, but declarations such as this seem widely used; > > <link rel='alternate' type='application/rss+xml' title='RSS' href='/ongoing/ongoing.rss' /> > > (see http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02/important_change_to_the_link_tag ) > > Wouldn't that solve the problem (albeit at the cost of an extra GET)? Yes, that would solve the problem for sites that do RSS Autodiscovery, for whatever percentage of sites do that. In the context of Atom, the format that this most recently came up for, adding a link element to the Atom feed that contains the URI of the Atom feed also solves the problem. It also looks like hooking a mime-type is easier than hooking into a new URI scheme, at least under Windows[1]. -joe [1] http://bitworking.org/news/Atom_Auto_Sub_How_To -- http://BitWorking.org http://WellFormedWeb.org
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