Complete agree here: RSS makes a lot of sense since it's really a standard for representing a "list of items" and their respective metadata. This list of items is basically the main product of the search engine, i.e., it's list of results. I think that if by default search.jsp produced RSS output, rather than HTML, Nutch would also be more attractive as an API to plug in to, and Nutch could be one of the standard components in some system of systems architecture.
Can someone draft a specification of what the Nutch RSS output should look like? I think this should be based on what search.jsp currently produces. The output should not be internationalized, rather that can be done by stylesheets.
In particular, what's needed beyond RSS and A9's OpenSearch extensions? Under <channel/> we need navigation urls, for next-page, show-all-hits, clustering, etc. Under <item/> we need urls for cache, explain, and more-from-site. Is there more?
Once we have some agreement about what should be returned, then we need a volunteer to implement it!
Doug
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