November 2006
sitemaps.org - Home
by fredbird & 16 othersSitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
October 2006
OpenSearch
by fredbird & 4 othersOpenSearch is a collection of simple formats for the sharing of search results.
The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications.
The OpenSearch response elements can be used to extend existing syndication formats, such as RSS and Atom, with the extra metadata needed to return search results.
June 2006
A9.com > OpenSearch
by fredbird & 8 others (via)OpenSearch is a set of simple formats for the sharing of search results. Any website that has a search feature can make their results available in OpenSearchâ„¢ format. Other tools can then read those search results. For example, here is an aggregator that brings together search results from many websites:
April 2006
XML-RPC Home Page
by fredbird & 6 othersWhat is XML-RPC?
It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet.
March 2006
W3C Technical Reports and Publications
by xenomorph & 1 otherW3C Technical Reports and
Publications
October 2005
XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines
by xenomorph & 5 othersXMLHttpRequest is becoming more and more popular, and many people are currently exploring what we could do with it. Unfortunately this also causes people to reinvent old and forgotten usability problems.
July 2005
Content with Style: Database-driven tree structures with XML and XSLT
by fredbird & 1 otherThis article deals with the display of tree-structures that are driven by a database. There are actually a few approaches to transform a 2-dimensional structure into a tree, and it seems odd that most are unknown to many developers.
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