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Mark explains why the recent movements for replacing RSS with
semantic XHTML are wrong. I think the reasons he mentions are clear
enough and only someone completely blind will continue to argue
with him IMHO I think that a standard for marking a link as the
link for that site RSS feed would be the standard that should be
proposed. Something like:

<a href=”index.rdf” class=”rssfeed”> Syndicate Me
</a>

This would help developing bookmarklets that would add the current
site to the user’s favourite rss aggregator.

Update: I’ve just been called to the attention
that href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/06/02.html#important_change_to_the_link_tag">
a standard already exists for this. A nice screenshot showing
how tools can use it is href="http://www.newzcrawler.com/images/scrshots/rssauto.gif">here.

Although it’s clear that XHTML is not the answer for syndication
I would really like to see some XHTML standards arise. For
instance, one that would provide a standard for constructing web
pages, into which compliant CSS could be applied without any
changes. That would allow web designers and web developers an
easier way to cooperate.

From href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/11/26.html#syndication_is_not_publication">
diveintomark.org.