<link rel=...> in head section

[David Carter-Tod]

At 10:15 AM 6/28/2002 -0500, Nicklin, Kelly wrote:
>What is the purpose of the following tag?
><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS"
>href="http://teachers.ops.org/nicklink/xml/rss.xml" />

It's actually a very neat feature (and a rapidly emerging standard 
practice).  It identifies to browsers that you have an RSS (XML) version of 
your front page for syndication.  Here's a fairly simple run-down: 
http://utahgov.net/rss/

Here's Userland's short run-down on it:
http://manilanewbies.userland.com/linkToRssFromHtml

David


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