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RSS auto-discovery
By Dave Winer on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM.

If you want to tell an application where the RSS feed for the site is, include a <link> element in the <head> section of the HTML document with the following attributes: #

1. rel = "alternate" #

2. type = "application/rss+xml" #

3. title = "RSS" #

4. href = the address of the feed. #

For example, this is the link element, which is included in the head section of every page in this blog, that helps you discover the feed. #

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://scripting.com/rss.xml" /> #

Note: This feature has been around since 2002, but I didn't have a current page that explains it. The original page is on the Radio UserLand site. #
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