SWML

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

In article <LNBBIHIAEFCFHPLINLECGEHCACAB.david@moreover.com>, David
Galbraith <david@moreover.com> writes
>Below is a rough draft of what a marked up HTML would look like page (the
>markup is called swml 'semantic web markup language' for want of a better
>description):

Interesting but...

If you have control over both the source and destination of this data,
then I suppose you could do something with it. But I have the same
problem with this that I have with the route RSSDF 1.0 has gone. It's
all very well producing wonderful extensions to the standard but it's
all a bit pointless isn't it, if there are no implementations of readers
that know how to make sense of it. 

This is the problem with standards. Until you have a critical mass of
implementations, they are irrelevant. 

So here's the questions. What would you do with this stuff in a reader?
And how would you persuade people to produce it?

Right now we have a standard in 0.91 (and a half) that has lots of
implementations of both the source and destination of the data. The
problem now is first, getting more of the rest of the world to produce
it and second, producing better readers.

I'm repeating myself, but the whole <span class="rss:item"> is nothing
more than a temporary kludge. The real answer is to get RSS produced by
default by as many CMS as possible.

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