[Playlist] rel = alternate for XSPF

[Chris Anderson]

I have a hope that someday search engines will index the alternate
XSPF, instead of the just the HTML. Grabb.it is using xspf as our
reference format, and generating our other representations from it, so
Google et al may as well go to the source.

On 3/31/07, Lucas Gonze <lgonze at panix.com> wrote:
> Chris Anderson wrote:
> > I've been thinking about using a link tag to provide a semantic link
> > between my html pages, and their xspf equivalents. Something like:
> >
> > <link rel="alternate" type="application/xspf+xml" title="2del on Music
> > For Dozens" href="http://mfdz.com/2del.xspf" />
> >
> > Is anyone else using this or something like it? If there is a prior
> > method in use, I'll stick with convention. Otherwise, this looks right
> > to me. Maybe we'll see something like it on Webjay someday. :)
>
> We used to do this on Webjay a long time ago, but took it out because it
> felt like a vanity.  If it's useful we can re-enable that code.
>
> Brainstorming about uses of the tag --
>
> A Greasemonkey script that auto-inserted a player when it found this link.
>
> A screen scraper that took advantage of the XSPF version to get
> formatted semantics of links within the document.  For example it would
> be able to identify the creator of a particular track by using
> information within the XSPF.
>
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Chris Anderson
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