Re: Metadata or content - and some OCS feedback

[Ian Davis <id@xxxxxxxx.xxxx]

Hi Dan,

On Tuesday, July 06, 1999, 10:29:15 PM, Dan wrote:

>> 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?
The optional content would be an element that would allow the provider
to add a paragraph or so of text including some limited HTML markup
such as <i>, <b>, <em>, <strong>, <a>, <span>

I'm not sure what value the description element has. I guess it could
be useful for more static listings, such as mini sitemaps. But for
content syndication it's not enough - we want to be able to include
links in the text ala scriptingNews format (but simpler to write and
bw compatible with RSS)

> When I get a chance, I will post the RSS 1.0 spec + DTD here.
That would be useful, my copy is dated 21 June 1999 but there may have
been changes since then.

> 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.

This list is a good place to start opening up the channel format to
outside developers. RSS is a public standard and it would be nice to
be able to work with Netscape openly to enrich the format.

> -dan

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