Re: [syndication] Re: RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff

[Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, DJ Adams wrote:

> > The DTD issue is an interesting one. I can think of many application
> > scenarios when I would like to blend elements with RSS semantics
> > into my own documents (an importation of RSS). I can also think
> > of some applications where I would ideally base my documents
> > on RSS but extend them in certain ways (an extension of RSS).

You may want to take a gander at the thread started with a proposal by Ian
Davis of InternetAlchemy on the modular extension of RSS a la XHTML
modules at:

  http://lists.oreillynet.com/pipermail/rss/2000-June/000006.html

> I second that. The underlying beauty of RSS is that it represents a basic
> content transport in business IT too, namely a document - it has a header
> and multiple positions. The idea of a document is so fundamental to ERP
> processing, I can see the appeal of a real, working and simple
> representation of a document in XML (RSS) is (a) successful and (b) a great
> basis for extending.

Yes indeed.

> An example, a business 'channel' for the head of a purchasing group might be
> a 'pulled' list of requisition orders waiting for approval. Off goes an HTTP
> request, and pop - an RSS style 'document' listing the requisitions awaiting
> approval comes back as, e.g. the foundation, when rendered, for a
> 'miniApp'-style (term from SAP Workplace) rendering complete with inherent /
> inbuilt 'what-to-do-next' instructions (the HTTP links).

There's no end to the applicability of an extensible RSS framework:
real-estate, jobs, errata, etc.

Rael

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