[uf-discuss] Subscription lists in XOXO

[Danny Ayers]

Big apologies if I missed it, but I was wondering if there was already
a preferred way of expressing aggregator subscription lists in XHTML.
I found an example for simple link lists, but am not sure about the
best way of expressing what in OPML would look like:

<outline text="A Blog"
            type="rss"
            htmlUrl="http://example.org/page.html"
            xmlUrl="http://example.org/feed.xml"/>

I had a fiddle at [1], my crack at the bit in question looking like this:

<ul>A Blog
   <li>
       <a href="http://example.org/page.html">homepage</a>
   </li>
   <li>
       <a href="http://example.org/feed.rss" type="application/xml">feed</a>
   </li>
</ul>

Les Orchard's had a fiddle at [2], his version:

<li class="rss">
    <a class="xmlUrl" type="application/xml"
href="http://example.org/feed.rss">XML</a>
    <a class="htmlUrl" href="http://example.org/page.html" title="A
Blog">A Blog</a>
</li>

I think Les has it much closer to what's needed, the use of class
seems wise. But is this a list of URIs? Definitions? I dunno. Another
question would be how to extend this, if for example there was a
description of the feed available too (check Les' OPML source -
there's description and a few more attributes in there).

When it comes to parsing the stuff, it would be nice to have a common
convention ;-)

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://dannyayers.com/archives/2005/11/30/going-to-the-hub/#subs
[2] http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/12/01/feedrolls-in-xoxo-from-opml-via-xslt-and-url-line-magic

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