--On Thursday, January 13, 2005 06:55:53 PM -0500 Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The proposal apparently is for feeds to contain other feeds by containment. My question is whether it would make sense to also support feeds containing other feeds by reference, perhaps via a link element or via a src= attribute (analogous to content/@src defined in 5.12.2).
As someone maintaining a spider and search engine, I'm -1 on inclusion by reference. The additional complexity is just not worth it.
If a referenced doc is a 404, is the feed state OK? Should I index it or not? Do I always need to re-visit referred docs when I revisit the main one? What do I do with loops? Do I index all the content as belonging to the main doc? What if that is included in something else by reference, can it still be a standalone item?
For the same reasons, I'm not very hot on any sort of content by reference. But recursive feeds by reference opens up lots more issues.
Basically, if you want your content in a search engine, it had better be accessible with a single GET.
wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Architect Verity Ultraseek
