Bill Kearney explains XFML better
Bill Kearney explains XFML better than I do: "If they wanted to get an 'overall picture' they'd benefit from using something like XFML. With XFML it's possible to deliver a pretty large file that contained the topic framework and associations of the items. This would, essentially, be ALL items from the site. Although, one could consider using a dynamic XFML generator that constrained the data to within certain ranges (like
by year) but that's a side-issue. Rather than have the XFML contain content it just contains the topics, titles and URL of the actual items themselves. This way if someone wants to find out what items exist in within a topic they don't
have to crawl the site looking for it. They can pull the XFML and THEN decide which items to read.