Implementing YADIS with no new software

Mon Oct 31 10:34:38 PST 2005

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Kurt Raschke wrote:
> This sort of thing works well with existing documents (whether static or
> dynamic), and requires nothing more than a few tags in the <head>.  The
> only problems is that it is (X)HTML-specific.  This has been raised
> before in terms of decoupling OpenID from (X)HTML, and I don't believe a
> satisfactory resolution was ever reached on that issue.
> 
> -Kurt
> 
If the XHTML decoupling is an issue, couple YADIS to RDF. Then link to
it by a method dependant on the base format. I'm none too well versed in
RDF myself (need to learn), but it seems that an XHTML document could
have a <link rel="meta" /> element linking to an RDF document with the
CC license, YADIS capabilities, etc.

An example of the YADIS info could be something like:

<y:Capabilities>
  <y:Server protocol="OpenID" preference="0.9" href="..." />
  <y:Server protocol="LID"    preference="0.7" href="..." />
</y:Capabilities>
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