Re: Portal Layout Markup Language

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Jury Gerasimov <jury@softshape.com> wrote:

> So the data (content) XML format is really the question. It should allow to
> apply different views (skins) and be close to HTML tags (like XHTML); in the
> same time it should keep the semantics (where is the header, where is the
> article itself, what is the source, etc.) as much as possible (like
> XMLNews). Is there any XML vocabulary for layout description which can save
> the sematics ?

Ahh, I believe I'm beginning to understand you now. If you're under the
control of the content sources (which I assume you are) you're probably best
off by creating a specialized format for exactly what you're trying to do.
If you'd like to go with some sort of standard, you may want to look at RSS
and scriptingNews. For more on RSS, visit:

http://www.blogspace.com/rss/

I don't have the scriptingNews URL at the moment, but I believe it's at one
of these:

http://backend.userland.com/stories/
http://my.userland.com/stories/

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