On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:26:18PM +0100, Julian Bond wrote:
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> 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
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