[georss] link in header for georss

[Raj Singh]

I think Gregor's right. There's no standard way to say that an RSS document
uses certain other vocabularies in it. I don't even think mime types are
doing a good job with XML, much less getting more specific. I guess our
evangelical stance should be to *always* be prepared to parse GeoRSS.

--
Raj

On 5/17/06 2:51 PM, "Gregor J. Rothfuss" <gregor at apache.org> wrote:

> Josh at oklieb wrote:
> 
>> Apparently Firefox doesn't focus exclusively on the mime type, but it
>> might be helpful to suggest describing a georss feed as mime type
>> "application/georss+xml" to guide some imagined georss plugin looking
>> for news to visualize.
> 
> that would involve registering that type with IANA, and also serving it
> up with the correct mime type. given that georss is really just an
> extension of rss, i don't think it should have it's own mime type, just
> as media rss is served as application/rss+xml.
> 
> it is up to your feed-consuming app to deal with the extensions present,
> and do something useful for the ones it supports.
> http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=699 shows how one
> product has implemented this.
> 
> -gregor