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

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

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Seth Russell wrote:

> Ian Graham wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well shucks that's what i wanted too.  Why not just have a content tag
> and use it like
> <content  xmlns:XXX="http://MYWHATEVER#> ..... any XML markup content
> whatsoever ....</content>
> And the RSS 1.0 spec would not care in the slightest what was inside
> the content tag.

Well, that's fine, but entirely avoids the question:  what generic,
minimal set of information is desired in a data syndication message,
independent of the data being syndicated?  

Ian