Are you guys talking about something like this, except in HTML? http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/protocol.html
:DG< On 3/24/06, Phil Haack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
