Re: Metadata or content - and some OCS feedback

[danda@xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)]

> However from what I've seen we shouldn't hold out too much hope of
> Netscape adding everything that we need to the format. Personally, I'd
> be looking for at least the following: language, publication date,
> author/copyright/credits, optional content with each item, optional
> date with each item.

language is there - per channel, not item.  no date stuff yet.  no attribution stuff.  The
latter two are really just laziness and time constraints, not because we don't want to.  In
fact, I could probably just make those "undocumented tags" that would be ignored by our
validator.  There is an optional description available for each item now.  What sort of
"optional content with each item" did you have in mind?

When I get a chance, I will post the RSS 1.0 spec + DTD here.

If someone could post a proposal for the exact syntax of above tags, that would be useful.
Also, even if these things don't make it into 1.0, I don't see any reason why we couldn't
easily create a 1.1 with some of these added as optional attributes.

-dan