RE: [syndication] Syndicating other kinds of content with RSS

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

The RSS 0.92 spec does not require items to have <link> tags. If you
want to generate 0.91 then you could simply link all of the items to
a central "menu" page.

I do not think that syndicating this is crazy. I recently found a cool
site that syndicates recipes (http://chelo.metropoli2000.com/), so
anything is possible. Go for it!

>   <description>Hot dog, French fries, Pizza strips</description>

Do your students typically live to graduate, or do they die of clogged
arteries in their senior year?

Jeff;

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Dennen [mailto:billdennen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:16 AM
To: syndication@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [syndication] Syndicating other kinds of content with RSS


Hi there-

I have a question about syndicating content other than NEWS FEEDS using RSS.
"Syndicating" might not be the right word, so I apologize.

Basically, we'd like to set up an infrastructure that uses RSS for content
other than news feeds. We're in the process of putting together some
proposals for creating a personalized web page for students at the
university where I work. I'd like to see us use XML as the basis for some of
this, including RSS.

For example, we'd like to set up thing so that dining menus and events
calendars can be "syndicated." We could do something like this:

<item>
  <title>Lunch - March 14, 2001</title>
  <link></link>
  <description>Hot dog, French fries, Pizza strips</description>
</item>

Note, there wouldn't be a need for a <link> in this, however, the RSS spec
seems to require it.

Is anyone using RSS to syndicate this type of content. Does anyone have any
tips or pointers? Am I crazy to think that  we can do things this way?

Thanks-
Bill

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