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XML namespace

OpenSearch 1.1

Describes a search endpoint, and adds paging metadata to search-result feeds.

xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"

An OpenSearch description document tells a client how to construct a query URL for a site's search. The same namespace also supplies totalResults, startIndex and itemsPerPage, which paginated Atom or RSS result feeds use.

The a9.com URI reflects the spec's origins at Amazon's A9 and remains the canonical identifier.

URI
http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/
Prefix
opensearch
Elements
OpenSearchDescriptionUrltotalResultsstartIndexitemsPerPage

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