Dare Obasanjo on Microformats vs. XML: Was the XML Vision Wrong?:

I’ve always considered it a gross hack to think that instead of having an HTML web page for my blog and an Atom/RSS feed, instead I should have a single HTML page with <div class="rss:item"> or <h3 class="atom:title"> embedded in it instead. However given that one of the inventors of XML (Tim Bray) is now advocating this approach, I wonder if I’m simply clinging to old ways and have become the kind of intellectual dinosaur I bemoan.

I find the idea of feed metadata stored within the actual index page of blog (presumably as a microformat) VERY compelling.

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