Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Mark Alexander <malexander@acm.org>]

Having looked at both versions of RSS, I am confused. We are losing the hierarchy of data elements within the RSS structure and instead creating this Hierarchy with the <inchannel> tag. To me the Hierarchy is one of the strengths of XML and flattening out this Hierarchy becomes very problematic if the if the Hierarchy is more than 1 level deep.

In RSS1

	<channel rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com";>
		...
	</channel>

	<image rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/images/mynetscape88.gif";>
		<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
		...
	</image>

	<item rdf:about="http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=24"; position="1">
		<inchannel rdf:resource="http://writetheweb.com"; />
		...
	</item>

In RSS.091

	<channel>
		...
		<image>
		...
			</image>
		<item>
		...
			</item>
	</channel>

Mark
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