Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:

> I have an idea. 
> 
> Could you prepare a RSS "1.0" version of this file?

Sure Dave! It was really easy, because there's an online RSS 0.9 -> 1.0
converter by Jonathan "Not-So-Desperate Perl Hacker" Eisenzopf. :-)

http://www.perlxml.com/cgi-bin/rss_converter.pl

I dropped the file in and it gave me this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rdf:RDF
 xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
 xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/";
 xmlns:rss091="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules#rss091";
>

<channel rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com";>
<title>WriteTheWeb</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com</link>
<description>News for web users that write back</description>
<rss091:language>en-us</rss091:language>
<rss091:copyright>Copyright 2000, WriteTheWeb team.</rss091:copyright>
<rss091:managingEditor>editor@writetheweb.com</rss091:managingEditor>
<rss091:webMaster>webmaster@writetheweb.com</rss091:webMaster>
</channel>

<image rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/images/mynetscape88.gif";>
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>WriteTheWeb</title>
<url>http://writetheweb.com/images/mynetscape88.gif</url>
<link>http://writetheweb.com</link>
<rss091:width>88</rss091:width>
<rss091:height>31</rss091:height>
<rss091:description>News for web users that write back</rss091:description>
</image>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=24"; position="1">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>Giving the world a pluggable Gnutella</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=24</link>
<description>WorldOS is a framework on which to build programs that work
like Freenet or Gnutella -allowing distributed applications using
peer-to-peer routing.</description>
</item>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=23"; position="2">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>Syndication discussions hot up</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=23</link>
<description>After a period of dormancy, the Syndication mailing list has
become active again, with contributions from leaders in traditional media
and Web syndication.</description>
</item>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=22"; position="3">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>Personal web server integrates file sharing and messaging</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=22</link>
<description>The Magi Project is an innovative project to create a combined
personal web server and messaging system that enables the sharing and
synchronization of information across desktop, laptop and palmtop
devices.</description>
</item>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=21"; position="4">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>Syndication and Metadata</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=21</link>
<description>RSS is probably the best known metadata format around. RDF is
probably one of the least understood. In this essay, published on my
O'Reilly Network weblog, I argue that the next generation of RSS should be
based on RDF.</description>
</item>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=20"; position="5">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>UK bloggers get organised</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=20</link>
<description>Looks like the weblogs scene is gathering pace beyond the
shores of the US. There's now a UK-specific page on weblogs.com, and a
mailing list at egroups.</description>
</item>

<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=19"; position="6">
<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
<title>Yournamehere.com more important than anything</title>
<link>http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=19</link>
<description>Whatever you're publishing on the web, your site name is the
most valuable asset you have, according to Carl Steadman.</description>
</item>

</rdf:RDF>

Now I'm a rather biased opinion, so I went to ask my brothers (9 and 12 --
experts on simplicity :-)) what they thought. They said they were about the
same, but that 1.0 might be a little easier to understand. (I didn't tell
them what to say -- honest!) So there it is -- straight from the child's
mouth!

-- 
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