People do read Microformat content directly which I understand. It fits with the "Human First" principle.
But references to the xmdp profiles are in the <head> element which is NOT human readable. So there is precedent for non-human readable discoverability mechanism within Microformats. At Mix06, Tantek pointed out that listing all the xmdp profiles that a site used on a homepage could get unwieldy. I suppose if I wanted to help both people and an aggregator find various Microformats of interest, there could be a microformat for a site index. My homepage could include it or simply link to it using some other microformat. Thus for the human, there would be a simple link to follow <a href="/siteindex/" rel="siteindex">Site Map</a>. Likewise, my aggregator would look for this if it didn't find the xmdp profile for a sitemap on the current page. I think this might be useful so aggregators (and users) don't have to crawl an entire site. Has there been any work done in this area? Is it a bad idea? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Reynen Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 11:50 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Enumerating Microformats on a Page Because feed auto-discovery links are in the content, not the headers of HTTP responses, aggregators have to download the entire page, and most aggregators search first for <link type="alternate" ...> tags, and second for something like <a href="something.rss">RSS</a>. The link tag makes more sense here because people don't read feeds directly, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to provide human-readable <a> links to feeds. But people *do* read microformat content directly, so if it's related to the current page, it should be linked from the current page, and any human or machine looking site-wide for microformat content (or anything else) should follow links throughout the site. Peace, Scott _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss