Feeling RDF all over.

Hi again. I've just added on an RDF index for this diary web site.

Could someone who can do something useful with RDF files please check if it works. I followed the basic structure of Slashdot's RDF file. Remember though, I don't update this more than once a day, so reloading every five minutes in pointless.

The format of RDF files disturbs me greatly though. <?xml this, xmnls:rdf that. All to declare this as an RDF file. Couldn't that be just as easily done by sticking <RDF> at the top, or using a Content-Type of, say, application/rdf?
Will those two documents on the W3C web site ever get loaded merely because I linkd to them? I doubt it. More likely that all the various RDF aggregators out there will skip over the header and go straight for the beef of the file. If I shoved a <dingleberry> element into the file, would all the RDF aggregators know what to do with it, even if they also had the DTD files from the W3C?

But alas, XML is kewl and trendy and suitable for all forms of data transportation. Now excuse while I add !DOCTYPE declarations to my HTML files.