[uf-discuss] Microformat for linking to XML source (to replace the Structured Blogging plugin's embedding method)

Phillip Pearson pp at myelin.co.nz
Wed Jan 18 16:55:21 PST 2006


>This is kind of like those RSS buttons that you see everywhere (that
>link to RSS.. which is XML).  For example, stuff like:
>
>    <a href="/feed/rss"><img src="/image/rss.png" alt="RSS" /></a>
>
>With semanitcs, I guess this would be:
>
>    <a rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
>href="/feed/rss"><img src="/image/rss.png" alt="RSS" /></a>
>  
>

Yeah.  Come to think of it, why aren't we doing RSS/Atom autodiscovery 
that way rather than putting <link> elements in the HTML header?

(A bit late now to change, but ...)

Cheers,
Phil


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