Re: [RSS-DEV] Consensus on feed generator?

["Jeff Barr" <jeff@vertexdev.com>]

I'm ready and able to support something like this in
Syndic8, but we need to hear from the groups that
(a) you are ok with the representation and (b) that
you would be interested in supporting it in your
tools.

> if there's additional metainformation about the
> software, using this resource as a URL is a great idea).

Do you have an example of what this would look like?

Jeff;

> "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> So, after last week's thread, has there been a consensus on what
>> format would be useful?
>>
>> The thread:
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-dev/message/2347
>>
>> We've got 4 toolkits reporting just over 850 feeds.  The parser's not
>> yet reporting the stats from a few others.
>>
>> I'd like to move forward on this idea.  Several toolkit authors have
>> inquired about what format to use.  I'd like to avoid recommending
>> something only to have it change next week.
>
> I don't recall any suggestions to change or negative comments to the
> admin module proposal, so for RSS 1.0 feeds:
>
>  xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/";
>
>  <admin:generatorAgent>
>
>
> I've uploaded the proposal to the RSS 1.0 proposed modules directory as
> a more permanent location:
>
>  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-
dev/files/Modules/Proposed/mod_admin.html
>
> Two things to note:
>
>  1) RSS 1.0 generators use a URI or URL to refer to the software and
>     version (if there's additional metainformation about the
>     software, using this resource as a URL is a great idea).
>
>  2) This module also proposes an <admin:errorReportsTo> which is
>     synonymous with the RSS 0.9x element <webMaster>, and should also
>     be evangelized to RSS 1.0 feeds.
>
> -- Ken