Re: [syndication] O'Reilly's "Content Syndication with XML and RSS"

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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"Ben Hammersley" <ben@benhammersley.com> writes:

> **** CROSS-POSTED! BEWARE! ****
> 
> Good morning all,
> 
> I've just agreed a contract with O'Reilly to write "Content Syndication with
> XML and RSS" for release around the end of the year.

Sweet!

> My aim is for the book to cover most of the xml-ish syndication standards, but
> to concentrate on RSS0.9x and RSS1.0. I shall be putting the proposed outline
> of the chapters - which will no doubt evolve - on the book's blog at
> http://rss.benhammersley.com over the next few days.  In OPML, natch.

Might want to have an HTML version too :)

> Meanwhile, and over the next few months, I would very much appreciate hearing
> from anyone with ideas/issues/bugbears/preoccupations/fetishes or any other
> interest whatsoever in RSS.

Have you seen Reptile?

http://reptile.openprivacy.org

Other than normal RSS and OCS style syndication, Reptile has a distributed P2P
search and reputation mechanism which you might be interested in.

> Are there any issues you feel need strong wording?

Steve Jenson and I have felt that there needs to be a 'best practices' for RSS.

Specifically some of the RSS readers can't handle valid XML.

For example:

http://relativity.yi.org/rss/index.rss

This uses explicit CDATA sections (100% valid XML) for descriptions but a number
of RSS tools can't handle it.  Specifically Radio Userland.

I think that it needs to be strongly worded that if you want to use RSS, use an
XML parser.  Do not try to parse RSS by hand.

...

Also... don't encode HTML entities within your title elements.

Anything else?

> Any common errors you'd like to see highlighted?  Any interesting uses of RSS
> that you'd like to see in such a book?

We can serialize distributed P2P search results to RSS channels within Reptile
:)

> Any future developments that you would like to get into a book coming out in 6
> months or so?

mod_content

> RSS is a great technology, and its community is both very strong and very
> diverse: I'd like the book to reflect this. Your input will be highly valued.
> 
> I'm on email, all the IM networks, and via the blog: details in my sig.  I'll
> also be at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference next month, if there
> are any soapboxes you'd like to administer personally.
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I will be there too Ben...

Look for this guy :)

http://relativity.yi.org/

Kevin

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