Re: [syndication] Re: eXtensible Content Syndication (the next step for OCS)

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <200108121535.f7CFZoi26035@theinfo.org>, Aaron Swartz
<aswartz@swartzfam.com> writes
>And, for the record, I think that having title and description 
>built in is a good idea. That's been my position from the 
>beginning, I'm not sure why you thought otherwise... If we're 
>using title and description, however, why not just use RSS?

That's where I started from. Just leave out the <item>s and <image> and
concatenate the <channel>s together. Except that we definitely do need
the url of the feed.

I later suggested leaving out most of the other <channel> elements as
they can always be collected from the RSS. And Dries ended up with just
<url> and <title> as the only ones worth keeping.

Today, I feel like:- 
<channel>
 <title>       //From the RSS
 <url>         //The location of the XML
 <link>        //Location of the html of the channel owner. From the RSS 
 <description> //From the RSS

is necessary and sufficient. If this is going to become real instead of
just a thought experiment, can we please KISS?

Maybe we need a few use cases to keep this real.

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