On 11/23/05, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Suda wrote: > > > If you look at any other "distributed" web services, for instance > > SOAP, it has WSDL for description and UDDI (and other competing > > services) for discovery. > > This is a bit different, because a SOAP document will never be > discovered through standard link crawling, but a microformatted > document will. I'm not clear on what the use case is for microformat > discovery. As long as there's a link to an HTML document, wouldn't > any crawler want to follow the link and check for microformatted > content regardless of whether or not the link has class="contains- > hreview" or whatever? If microformat search engine A follows all > links, and microformat search engine B only follows links marked with > some microformat discovery semantics, A will have more content as > long as there is a single link that's not marked. So where is the > advantage in this? >
Software that uses distributed uF data may want to see where all the uF data is and not get caught up in crawling the whole web. Context: REST APIs. - Luke _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
