Re: [syndication] Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Jonathan Eisenzopf wrote:

> ...
> 
> As a matter of comparison, I would like to present 3 other XML
> standards used for newspapers, news wires, etc..
> 
> XMLNews - http://www.xmlnews.org
> News Industry Text Format (NITF) XML - http://www.nitf.org
> NewsML - http://www.iptc.org/NMLIntro.htm
> DocBook - http://www.docbook.org
> 
> The above are writing formats for text documents. XMLNews Meta is
> similar to RSS. It also contains a format to markup the full
> story. These formats are for writers, but I suspect that writers

Well, I would argue (as I believe I have done from the before the start of
this thread) that the preceding formats have nothing to do with
syndication, except taht you'd like to syndicate them.  In this respect,
I've argued (in vain) that what one should do is create a _syndication_
language that models the essential issues of syndication, and that then
lets you embed any type of data (using namespaces, for example) inside
this syndication framework.

However, this list seems so bogged down trying to fiddle with RSS,
which IMHO is only one small example of what syndication can and should 
be.

Ian