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While thinking about how to best combine search results from different resources on a site (e.g. blog software, forum software, pages etc.) it appeared to me that it would be pretty neat to have a standardized format (possibly XML) to return search results. This could consist of title, excerpt and more meta information like time, author etc…
Ever heard of such a thing or do I have to program it myself? 😉
Other ideas are, of course, welcome, too!
Sounds to me like RSS-ish…
Standard RSS tags include: Title, Description, and Link. You can add others like Category, pubDate, GUID, Author and more.
This format can be used for sending search criteria, and for retrieving search results. Just handle the incoming XML, and form an XML document to send back.