Re: [syndication] RSS feeds for bookmarks

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>It's sub-optimal because you cannot use metadata, such as category, date, and
>contact email. Of course, such may not be necessary, and then RSS 0.9x will do
>just fine. But in many situations you will need the metadata. This means RDF
>and DC metadata, I suppose. So the issue is really whether it should be
>RSS 1.0
>or some other RDF application.

There's already an XML format for bookmarks: XBEL.
http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/docs/html/xbel.html

Incidentally, I've been working on a project called Syncasaurus that can
convert and merge IE/NS/Moz/iCab/XBEL formatted bookmarks to each other.
Would be no small pickings to do the same with RSS. You can see more
information about Syncasaurus here:

  http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/syncasaurus/

There's a design document in the CVS that outlines the planned runtime
logic and the purpose of everything. Right now, the project is very very
early in its infancy - it doesn't really do much right now, in other words
(although I've been manually trafficking and merging my bookmarks amongst
three or four computers, and things have been working fine).

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