There's no explicit MIME type for hAtom markedup html, excepting of course "text/html", and of course a html document may be marked up with several different microformats (othoganally or composited), so a new MIME type probably isn't the solution.
The reason I think that (2) is needed is: (a) profiles are not manditory, so we can't depend on their presence (b) the search-results consumer, knowing that there is hAtom search results, may want not to read the URL at all (prefering a proxy to do it) (c) there is and will continue to be pages that have HTML but not hAtom Regards, etc... David http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com On 8/30/06, Edward Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:28 AM, David Janes wrote: > (2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description > file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is > hAtom I'm glad someone posted about this--hAtom and OpenSearch seem like a natural combination. It's also very cool to hear about opensearch support at yahoo. I don't think (2) is necessary since the type attribute on the Url tag [1] does just this. The OpenSearch spec defers to the MIME type registry for valid values of 'type' and 'application/atom+html' isn't there. There isn't a MIME type for hAtom is there? To simplify things couldn't hSearch recommend that 'text/html' be used and let clients either choose to use the hAtom or just display as normal? Is there any real benefit to having an opensearch client know they can get hAtom in a response? Isn't the whole point of microformats that they are discovered in existing human readable web data and not explicitly requested? I don't see any immediate benefit in creating a microformat for the OpenSearch Description xml since autodiscovery makes it easy to locate and use. But I could be convinced otherwise. It would be great to have an hSearch page that outlined the optimal way to use hAtom with OpenSearch. Is this something that belongs on the wiki?
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