Re: [syndication] locating syndication feeds

[Brian Aker <brian@tangent.org>]

Rael Dornfest wrote:
>   a) OCS [http://internetalchemy.org/ocs/index.html] already does much
> of
>      this and more.  I've never particularly been a fan of OCS -- gobs
>      of folks find it confusing -- but it is already understood and used
>      by aggregators and readers.
I have a copy of XML::OCS for perl 0.2, problem is, most of the OCS
feeds seem to choke it. Plus, its not in CPAN, and despite trying
to get a response from the author I haven't been able to find
out if they will continue it (and I believe the author reads this list
so maybe I will get a response!).
The only thing that keeps me from not throwing in a feature to slash
to automatically publish all of its feeds is that module not being
in CPAN. 
At some point in the near future I may just rewrite the XML::OCS code
I have and solve that.

>   B) Why not use RSS itself to produce channel lists?  Self-referential
>      niftiness aside, it's already well understood by those wishing to
>      construct channel lists and leaves room for syndication of
That is what I ended up doing in a couple of cases. There really isn't
a reason for this not being doable.

	-Brian
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