RSS and XBEL (was - Re: RSS feeds for bookmarks)

["Aaron of Montreal" <aaron_of_montreal@yahoo.ca>]

--- In syndication@y..., Rael Dornfest <rael@o...> wrote:

> I actually had the passing thought a while back to make an XBEL
module 
> for RSS.  While of course one could simply use XBEL, it's really
nice to 
> use the same engines for multiple purposes.  What do you folks
think of 
> an XBEL RSS 1.0 module?

I don't dislike the idea but, conceptually, it doesn't seem like much
of a fit. By that, I mean RSS has never really been used for any kind
of hierarchical representation. From a categorization / taxonomy point
of view, it opens up all kinds of interesting possibilities, between
nesting stuff and pointing at data in other nodes. But I'm not sure
how tools, specifically, would use the functionality beyond just
shuttling a list of bookmarks around.

I am all for modules, but I guess I'm wondering how/when you draw the
line where RSS stops and another "application"[1] begins? Am I going
to have to write a DocBook module? :-)

Tangentially related : Apache::XBEL[2]

[1] My kingdom for another name for XML thingies...
[2] http://aaronland.net/toys/apache-xbel/