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

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

I don't understand. Do you have an example? Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Galbraith" <david@moreover.com>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff


> The problem with aggregating using RSS at the moment is that if you pull
> together a list of related items from different sources then the
aggregator
> appears to be the source.
> adding <source> and perhaps <source_link> to the existing <title> and
<link>
> would solve this. At he moment the <description> tag is sometimes used to
> contain metadata that would naturally fit into more than one element tag.
> DG
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 9:34 AM
> > To: syndication@egroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
> >
> >
> > DJ, I totally agree.
> >
> > There's no requirement that an aggregator do anything at all with any
part
> > of RSS.
> >
> > How do I know? Because there would be no way to enforce such a
> > requirement,
> > nor would it be a weblike thing to do.
> >
> > My.UserLand certainly doesn't pay attention to all parts of RSS.
> > And neither
> > does My.Netscape.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "DJ Adams" <dj.adams@gmx.net>
> > To: <syndication@egroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 7:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [syndication] RSS 0.91 - skips & optional stuff
> >
> >
> > > > a) Optional versus mandatory items -- If an RSS supplier includes an
> > > > <textInput> or <image> element, am I as an agreggator "required" to
> > render
> > > > those items when I render the channel?
> > > >
> > > > a1) On a sideways-related topic, is the "implied contract" between
> > > supplier
> > > > & aggregator that the aggregator will always render the supplied
items
> > > > grouped into a channel as they were provided? Or can I provide users
> > with
> > > a
> > > > search capability that allows extraction of individual
> > syndicated items
> > > from
> > > > a channel without rendering the whole thing?
> > >
> > > FWIW, I think the answers should be (a) NO and (b) NO, YES.
> > >
> > > Basically I can see nothing (correct me if I'm wrong) that says that
RSS
> > > data must be rendered [in human readable form, e.g. HTML] anyway.
> > >
> > > dj
> > > (neither an active supplier nor aggregator)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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