Re: Third draft of a generic syndication markup language

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca> wrote:

> Good point. They are defined elsewhere in the pages, but not in the DTD.
> By aggregation service I simply mean the source of the
> <syndicationMessage>.  I call it an aggregation service since it collects
> together items of data, adds metadata, and ships it out.

I see, but still the term isn't clear (at least not clear enough if you are
going to make statements like "unique to the aggregation service"). Is it
the server from which the syndicationMessages come? The domain name? What
happens if they come via a non-typical-Internet system for which these
definitions don't apply.

> In practice a universal identifier should be (by definition) independent
> of the retrieval process for the resource.

Of course -- but URLs work fine as identifiers, even if they're not used for
retrieval. This is how namespaces work, for example.

> Indeed, a uuid would, as a URI,
> more correctly be a Uniform Resource Name, for which there is no current
> specification.

Sure there is. There's an RFC that describes them.

http://rfc2611.x42.com/

> at: http://www.java/news/SPEC-ICE1_01-20000511.html#section3.2.

Careful with those URLs there, not all of us have you in our search path.
;-)

> So I have the same thing, but just in a different place,
> leaving room in the future for more standard UUID values.

Cool. Just thought it'd be nice to be a bit more webby.

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