Re: Hello, I am Carmen

["james@xmlTree.com" <james@xxxxxxx.xxxx]

Dear Carmen and all

> * The format of a list of syndicated web sites. Right now there
>   are two one-instance formats, Dave's and Ian's (what a great
>   community -- we are on a first name basis). It sounds to me
>   like James is coming up with something too. Ian's OCSF is a great
>   start.

James is not coming up with a competing standard.  I'll publish the contents of xmlTree in
whatever format the group decides to standardise on.  I have at the moment only one
feeling which I would like others to comment on - that whatever standard we agree on
should try to separate the metadata of the content from the content itself (i.e. What
hours it is available, when it is updated, who the editor is and so on from the actual
news items. Otherwise this metadata is repeated at the top of every news document).

> I am very interested in ways to sort and organize the lists
> of providers. Right now between my built-in list, Ian's list,
> and Dave's list I have about 250. This is way too many for
> a normal user to sort through in order to decide what kinds
> of news they want. We need standard (yet extensible)
> categories. Either exclusive or non-exclusive.

I am changing the categorisation structure for xmlTree from my own anarchistic hodge-podge
to an international standard, the Dewey Decimal System.  This is used by hundreds of
thousands of libraries around the world  (it has around 80% market share).  The reason for
this is that I want to be able to import and export channel registrations to and from
other sites which already have their own ad-hoc category structure, and the mapping
involved is complex, tedious and error prone.  If we can agree on a globally used (and
well publicised) standard then at least there is common understanding and other sites can
use my categorisation easily.

> A way to get stock quotes and weather would be cool. I expect
> to add filtering and notification in a post-1.0 release.

You can obtain XML marked-up stock quotes - see this link for details:
http://www.xmltree.com/resource/detail.cfm/ContainerID/42/ResourceID/226


Best regards,
James Carlyle

james@xmltree.com
www.xmltree.com - directory of XML content on the web