Re: [syndication] Sandard RSS location?

["james@xmlTree.com" <james@xmltree.com>]

Kevin

> - RSSRegistry (moreover,xmltree,etc) just registers ocs files.  So for
> example a RSSRegistry entry would just be http://SERVER/index.ocs.  This
> would then point to:
>
> /news/news.rss
> /cgi-bin/fast.cgi
> etc
>
> This has the advantage of a central repository/registry for index.ocs
> files and then each site has control over the actual files that have
> RSS.  This is similar in design to DNS.

I agree that xmlTree should contain OCS files, and allow RSS data consumers to grab the
metadata of the RSS channels themselves if they wish.  I will be confirming and adding
details of the OCS files that I know about to xmlTree this week.  But so far, the only
publishers who bother with the additional step of OCS are those who produce more than 10
channels (only a handful). For publishers who produce only one or two channels, writing
and updating an OCS file represents a significant increase in work.  Having said that, the
opportunity to allow more distributed discovery is exciting.

Ironically, it seems like this role for OCS would resemble the sitemap role originally
planned for RSS.  Meanwhile, we are discussing how to move OCS along.  My particular
interest is in adding category information to OCS to allow OCS consumers to browse OCS
instead of having to work with a large monolithic document containing details of thousands
of RSS files.

Best regards,
James Carlyle

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