> First of all, welcome to the list, Phil. I encourage you to read > through the list archives and the wiki, there's a lot of background > material and previous discussion there.
Thanks Ryan. I'm working through the material, but as you mentioned below, navigating and indexing content is a problem for the web as well. ;) >> 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. > Hmm, this sounds to me like a theoretical argument. I'd like to hear > what experience people have had here. Has anyone here worked on > crawling to index microformats? If so, what challenges did you face? Well the closest experience I have is writing auto-discovery algorithms for rss and atom links on a web page. Everybody seems to publish their atom and rss link in a variety of ways. Some put them right on top. Some in the footer. Some in a column. Yet others add a link to another page that then displays a list of available feeds (category feeds, comment feeds, etc...). As a user, some designs make it difficult to find the link. If there is one there, I pretty much eventually find it. But I've seen pages where it took a while to find it. Likewise, if there is no rss link, it can take a while before I realize that. However, when I point my auto-discovery algorithm at a page, my aggregator quickly pops up a list of rss feeds. Sometimes it discovers feeds I didn't notice on the page, but am interested in. I like this sort of discovery. Of course this can be solved with having everybody start using cleaner design. ;) >> 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. > Hmm, what's wrong with using the standard 'Contents' [http:// > www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links]? Probably nothing. Just my ignorance. I'll take a look. Thanks! _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
