Channel link to your portal/viewer from xmlTree

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

Hi XML Portal and News Viewer builders,

xmlTree now lists and categorises just under 1000 news and forum channels.  xmlTree is not
a portal, but we want content users to be able to use the search facilities of xmlTree to
find channels that they might be interested in, and then to view those channels in their
favorite portal or news viewer.

At the moment xmlTree exports news channels in the OCS format.  However, with 1000+
channels, the OCS document is large, and the user won't want to scroll through all of
them.  So what we are proposing is to provide links to portals and viewers to allow users
to add a channel to their portal or viewer channel selection after they have found and
viewed details of the channel on xmlTree.

For example, to allow a user to add a channel to their My.Netscape, we could provide a
link like http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?service=net.316 together with Netscape's
Add Channel button.

If the portal or viewer needed to support a particular channel before this could work, we
would need to know what these were.  Rather than refer to a channel by a proprietary
channel id which varies by portal, we would prefer to use the URL of the channel.
My.Userland already does this in it's serviceList.

So this means, for example, that on the detail page for the Segfault channel, we could
provide a link like
http://my.netscape.com/addchannel.tmpl?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml for
My.Netscape, or http://org.openjava.animus.AddChannel?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml
for TheWeb.StartsHere.net, or
http://my.userland.com/choose?url=http://segfault.org/stories.xml for My.Userland,
together with a button of your choice.

[Carmen - how could we do this for CHV?]

This would (as always) be a free service.  Let me know how this sounds and whether you
would like a link to your portal/viewer.

Best regards,
James Carlyle

james@xmltree.com
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