Title
Web Feeds Profile
Description
The Web Feeds Profile provides standards and guidance for the delivery of content to feed aggregators (web sites as well as directly to user agents).

Reference document

Org
FMN
Pubnum
Date
2022-12-02
Version
Title
Proposed FMN Spiral 5 Specification

Taxonomy

Standards

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CANDIDATE

Web content providers must support at least one of the two standards (RSS and/or Atom).

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CANDIDATE

Receivers of web content such as news aggregators or user agents must support both the RSS and the ATOM standard.

Guidance

RSS and Atom documents should reference related OpenSearch description documents via the Atom 1.0 link element, as specified in Section 4.2.7 of RFC 4287.

The rel attribute of the link element should contain the value search when referring to OpenSearch description documents. This relationship value is pending IANA registration. The reuse of the Atom link element is recommended in the context of other syndication formats that do natively support comparable functionality.

The following restrictions apply

  • The type attribute must contain the value application/opensearchdescription+xml.
  • The rel attribute must contain the value search.
  • The href attribute must contain a URI that resolves to an OpenSearch description document.
  • The title attribute may contain a human-readable plain text string describing the search engine.

Status

URI

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2023-01-23 14-32 15
UUID
18eaff8c-c475-4cf6-bb78-1a644ecd7d1f

Utilization

This profile is used by the following profiles:

Last updated on Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:51:28 UTC
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