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

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Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com> writes:
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> Actually, I am a lead developer on Peerkat: 
> http://peerkat.sourceforge.net/ which *is* an RSS client, thank 
> you very much.
> 
> 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?

I think that the format will be very similar to RSS but include additional
modules.  Again my original e-mail said that we should learn from both RSS 1.0
and from the original OCS.

It doesn't matter right now what the resulting format is just that it meets all
of our requirements.

> > That's it for me this round. Concerning Aaron's followup 
> > message, I think
> > the dc:language should definitely be as close to required as 
> > possible, but
> > don't like his attribute loving format. I fear the "use RDF! use RDF!"
> > admonishing.
> 
> What did attributes ever do to you, huh? When I've built SAX and SAX-based
> parsers, attribute content was much easier to get at than element content. I
> haven't used DOM tools, but I'd think that element and attribute content can't
> be too different...

Yes... agreed.  Attributes are much easier to grab than elements when you are
working with a SAX parser.

> Yes, I think it'd be nice to use RDF, especially since a lot of RSS clients
> will be/are using RDF datastores. However, I tend to think using RSS would be
> even better since it does just about everything we want out of this format,
> and there are a gazillion tools to use.

I don't think that RSS is sufficient.  If we took RSS and added about 5 modules
then maybe.  At this point it really wouldn't be RSS anymore. :)

Kevin

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